Honestly, why? The ecosystem is rich and developed. Libraries for everything. Great documentation. Fantastic tooling. What am I missing out on?

I love Java and it remains my programming language of choice

A’ight

We are particles governed by physical laws, so no

Alcohol. After smoking and obesity it’s the third highest preventable cause of cancer. I have every reason to live a long and healthy life. Why jeopardize that?

Thank you!

Interesting, thank you. You sound like you know your stuff and you had concluded that the Total thing was “very unpleasant” in the long term. I was into Soylent myself and actually tried to subsist mostly on it for about a year when life circumstances changed my path. I was wondering if I had inadvertently exploded my kidneys or whatever with my own personal Soylent experiment.

It sounds like Soylent is a little better than Total and I’m curious as to why

Do you have thoughts on meal replacements?

I’m curious if this experiment includes hydrating with water

This is what I just did. Ran in 4 seconds.

I kept track of bumps into obstructions. If I’ve seen a bump before, I figure I’m in a loop and I bail.

What would scare me the most is the bad tooling. I do rely on my tools to search for references, etc. I wonder if it’s even possible to write a good analyzer for COBOL. Verbose operators and literals wouldn’t scare me at all.

Still would jump at the chance. It would have to be remote and I would strongly prefer being the only engineer touching the code.

I am a professional software engineer. My favorite ecosystem is the Java one which may explain some things.

Why is verbosity such a bad thing? Especially in the context of maintaining something someone else wrote? I would much rather maintain old Java than say, old Perl. I want big long names. So I have a better idea of what they were for! I can pretty much read any line of Java from anywhere and have a very good idea what it’s actually doing.

Sure, it’s more of a pain to type but as a kid one of the best investments I made in myself was to take a typing class. I did this way before I discovered my passion for programming. I can type fast. And I can make my editors type boilerplate for me.

Edit: Give me the time to learn it (I’m confident I can learn it fast) and the ability to work remotely and I would jump at the chance. I can do the fun programming (in Java) in my spare time.

Pay me to do it remotely and I’ll jump at the chance

I love Java! And I love that video.

Java

I’m glad it’s there. I use it professionally to check the spellings of words.

Trance

I just went through the first five episodes of Doom 1 and had a ton of fun. Sigil II is a brick wall.

Go in cold! And definitely play Portal first. It’s really short.

I would love to use Matrix more. I’m in one Discord server I enjoy and would hate to lose touch with. I am otherwise actively minimizing my Discord use. My friends complain sometimes but I do not budge.