The XKCD Standards comic writ large. There are 17 competing standards. -> "Hey, we should make a standard to unite all these disparate standards." -> There are now 18 competing standards.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Obligatory XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/927/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Why is there always such a concerted effort to destroy the reputation of Java? It just seems so unnecessarily obsessive, and a lot of times wrong.

Don't get me wrong, I know that with time comes change, and Humanity improves on everything, including programming languages.

But at this point it seems like people want to hose Java down with holy water. It's excessive.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

How to go from only being able to compile the project on a Windows machine (due to obscure dependencies that every other Java project has for some reason) to not being able to compile on anyone's machine at all in just 1 simple step.

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