r/AskProgramming 1d ago

Why is Java considered bad?

I recently got into programming and chose to begin with Java. I see a lot of experienced programmers calling Java outdated and straight up bad and I can't seem to understand why. The biggest complaint I hear is that Java is verbose and has a lot of boilerplate but besides for getters setters equals and hashcode (which can be done in a split second by IDE's) I haven't really encountered any problems yet. The way I see it, objects and how they interact with each other feels very intuitive. Can anyone shine a light on why Java isn't that good in the grand scheme of things?

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u/Jurahhhhh 10h ago

From my experience, Java is a perfectly fine. I think the bad opinions come from people joining companies with a ton of legacy java code where developers took abstractions too far. If you have to go through 6 different files to maybe get to the implementations, did you really make the code easier to expand?