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Question: why do you dislike java so much?
Asked by Will (70.173.150.x) on January 27 2013, 2:48am
Reply on January 27 2013, 2:44pm (edited at January 27 2013, 2:45pm):

I don't have anything against the language, for the most part. The Java runtimes you end up having to install are just awful though, insecure messes. It is also a strangely proprietary platform.

Also, for applications, I really think garbage collection is a bad idea. If you have to periodically scan all memory, you're going to have a bad time. I remember

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