You are a stupid programmer, you can't have that

[bachmeier]

On Tuesday, 10 August 2021 at 06:23:39 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:

> I love how people love to hate Java, yet have no words of hate 
> against OOP in Smalltalk, SELF, Eiffel, Sather, C#, VB, Python 
> (check methods from typeof(func)), Dart.
>
> How has D's multiparadigm helped to have a better marketshare 
> than some of those extremist OOP languages?

I think in both cases a better comparison is Scala, since it's so 
close to Java. Martin Odersky cleaned up the OOP and made it 
multiparadigm (with functional programming) and a lot of people 
liked it. Since it's a programming language, people do complain 
about Scala, but they complain about other things. The features 
that stand out about Java are the boilerplate and the lack of 
expressiveness, and in my opinion, those criticisms are correct. 
In one sense, the Java language designers agree, since they've 
copied so much from languages like Scala.