"Whatever you do, however hard you try, the code will come out mediocre, verbose, redundant, and bloated"
That's, unfortunately, common misconception and excuse for writing bad software in Java.
Java has its own problems (as if other languages does not have them), rigid objects creation that has to be overcome by dependency injection, nulls that has to be overcome by using Optionals, badly designed time/date handling standard libraries, etc.
However there is a huge number of good quality, well design libraries that make Java shine.
- Guava gives us functional-like programming style plus nice collection handling
- Joda Time solves problems with date/time handling
- Lombok (projectlombok.org) cleans up code from getters/setters clutter
- Need a nice, collections only library, there is plenty of them (for instance GS Collections)
- You need to create super performant server? Just use Vert.x, Distruptor library, you are getting nice APIs and a lot of functionality for nothing
- You want to write nice, concurrent code without using low level primitives, no problem, go with Akka
- You need to orchestrate actions flow in your (huge) application - do it easyly, elegantly and almost without coding using Apache Camel
- Google Guice dependency injection library provides nice workaround for a rigid object creation strategy in Java
And so on, and so on. Java ecosystem is changing, there are new ideas that refresh language, despite its rigidness (no macros).
That's, unfortunately, common misconception and excuse for writing bad software in Java.
Java has its own problems (as if other languages does not have them), rigid objects creation that has to be overcome by dependency injection, nulls that has to be overcome by using Optionals, badly designed time/date handling standard libraries, etc.
However there is a huge number of good quality, well design libraries that make Java shine.
- Guava gives us functional-like programming style plus nice collection handling - Joda Time solves problems with date/time handling - Lombok (projectlombok.org) cleans up code from getters/setters clutter - Need a nice, collections only library, there is plenty of them (for instance GS Collections) - You need to create super performant server? Just use Vert.x, Distruptor library, you are getting nice APIs and a lot of functionality for nothing - You want to write nice, concurrent code without using low level primitives, no problem, go with Akka - You need to orchestrate actions flow in your (huge) application - do it easyly, elegantly and almost without coding using Apache Camel - Google Guice dependency injection library provides nice workaround for a rigid object creation strategy in Java
And so on, and so on. Java ecosystem is changing, there are new ideas that refresh language, despite its rigidness (no macros).