This is sad

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Paul Tomblin

I don’t know if this is a comment on the sad state of Java, or the sad state of the way my mind works.

I’ve been a Java developer since 1998. I think it’s a great language and I love working in it. But when I’m starting a personal project, I look for excuses not to use it. I don’t know why. I can code up beautiful and powerful GUIs in it, but I usually choose not to. It’s so ridiculous that I’m going to a meeting to discuss a possible freelance project very shortly, and I think I’m going to end up deciding to learn Python and wxPython and coding the GUI in that rather than do it in Java. And I don’t really know why.

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3 Responses to This is sad

  1. Joe D says:
    June 18, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    I do the same thing with C# and .NET.

    I use it at work, but if I’m starting something for myself, I’ll do it in C, even if it’s a pointy-clicky-gui windows app.

  2. Kristopher Johnson says:
    June 18, 2009 at 6:33 pm

    I’ve been primarily a C++ developer since around 1995, and I avoid using C++ whenever I can. Do anything long enough, and it gets boring, no matter how good you are at it.

  3. rone says:
    June 18, 2009 at 7:16 pm

    The cobbler’s children have no shoes?

    Either that or you’re finally coming to grips with the fact that Java is a clever idea that’s gone on to be used in entirely wrong ways.