Well yes, we know this already from the way that it makes easy things hard, and hard things nearly impossible, but it’s rarely been captured with the eloquence that I find in these wonderful quotes on the topic.
And yet, as cockroaches are to humans this technology/language/marketing campaign continues unabated until having java on one’s resume is a requirement to find a job through some ignorant HR department that has no idea what is is. Like the job posting I saw a few years ago for a java programmer with 10-years experience when java was only 7 years old. Luck with that.
My favourite quote:
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. — Robert Sewell
My boss asks me occasionally why I don’t use Java, and I tell him that I have many tools in my toolbox, some good and some bad that I bought on impulse due to good marketing or simply because they were new. Java is like my trendy flip-grip pliers from Crappy Tire that try to be both clippers and needle-nose pliers, but suck at both jobs. I don’t hate the tool, but I certainly don’t reach for it often, and I’m thinking of throwing it out.
