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Yep. Java looks good on paper, is mature, has good libraries, good IDEs and good support but boy is it painful to write it in any large quantity.

• mbreese 11y ago
  It's not that painful to write in large quantities, at least no more so than other static languages. And (given the IDE support), it's significantly easier to refactor code in Java than a dynamic language.
  • whyever 11y ago
    > It's not that painful to write in large quantities, at least no more so than other static languages. And (given the IDE support), it's significantly easier to refactor code in Java than a dynamic language. Java does not have type inference, does it? That alone makes it more painful than other static languages. Does Java have type inference?
    • oldmanjay 11y ago
      In certain situations, like some generics declarations, and in the lambda syntax. Overall, no. Even still, it's only a bit of typing, which has never really bothered me. Once typed, the available refactoring tools make it super simple to edit, and I find that I spend way more time editing code than creating it from whole cloth.