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Anon tries programming in Java (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by LiamTheBox@lemmy.world to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] lurklurk@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (25 children)

Hello World

30 minutes of boilerplate

writing imports

$ cat <<EOF > Hello.java
public class Hello {
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    System.out.println("Hello world!");
  }
}
EOF
$ java Hello.java
Hello world!

[–] MooseTheDog@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Welcome to java, we have a couple unconventional ways of doing things, but overall I'm like every other mainstream oo language.

People: AHH! Scary!

Welcome to python. your knowledge of me wont help you elsewhere as my syntax is purposefully obtuse and unique. Forget about semicolons, one missed space and your code is as worthless as you after learning this language.

People: Hello based department

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh my god I got fucked by a python script once because of a single space. It took forever to figure out what went wrong

[–] TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I refuse to code in Python without a really good IDE and linting like PyCharm. When using PyCharm it's very rare I have issues like this, because it catches them in one way or another, but I notice it catches those kinds of issues a lot when I'm coding soooooooo....

I have also setup the IDE to specifically color code comments like

' # End If and ' # Next

in the same style as their beginning statements as I find it much easier to visually scam through code when they are present.

[–] greenkarmic@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

You can't use Python without a linter. I have everything setup in vscode to use tabs yet copilot autocomplete insists on inserting random spaces everywhere creating indentation errors. The linter is essential to quickly see and fix them.

[–] lurklurk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Python has its drawbacks but it also has a pretty useful standard library so as a language for small scripts, one can do much worse

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

**kwargs

"No, I don't use type annotations because they don't actually do anything. In fact I purposefully give this parameter different types for different behaviors. How is that confusing?"

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It is possible to dislike both. For me SmallTalk-like languages are peak. Message passing for life!

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