Let's reinvent java bytecode but... different
this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2024
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Java is disliked because it’s designed around flawed OOP principles developed in the 80s and 90s. The code easily turn into a mess if you adhere to these principles, because they’re flawed. If you avoid using these principles, you will still get a mess, because that’s not how Java is supposed to be used.
Java was such a fractal of stupid design choices in its early years, and a lot of it is still there. OOP except when it's not (
intvsInteger,[]arrays but alsoListet al), no unsigned number types, initially no way to do closures or pass methods around so everything had to be wrapped in super verbose bullshit, initially absolutely dogshit multiparadigm support and very noun-oriented, initally no generics either meaning everything's anObject, when it did get generics they had to do type erasure for backwards compatibility, etc etc etcRegarding erasure, this is a good read. https://cr.openjdk.org/~briangoetz/valhalla/erasure.html
Great article, thanks for the link! It makes good points that I hadn't really considered; I've probably just been cranky about it because I've preferred heterogenous translations
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