Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.alt.net From: dale Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: java still worthwhile? Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 16:34:36 -0500 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <38a65abc-9f8b-49f6-b55c-490e32069bd2@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.1 In-Reply-To: <38a65abc-9f8b-49f6-b55c-490e32069bd2@googlegroups.com> Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:38744 On 2/27/2019 8:18 AM, Eric Douglas wrote: > On Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 5:25:25 PM UTC-5, dale wrote: >> Is java still worth my effort? Just a pastime and something resulting to >> note in my resume. I know the fundamentals of object oriented >> architecture, design and programming. Don't quite like using Netbeans >> IDE, or any other IDE, but could get used to it ... >> >> -- >> dale - https://www.dalekelly.org/ > > Java has been worth our while for the past decade or so, I can only assume the future for it is still bright. > > I wasn't crazy about Netbeans last I tried it, though I hear they completely rewrote it since, but am fine with Eclipse. I'll have a look at Eclipse > > Everyone needs to know how object oriented architecture works because that is modern programming whether you're using Java, Javascript, C#, or one of the other popular languages. If you're not working with objects you're living in the dark ages. > > I write relatively simple Java for a small business. I have my own fairly extensive API I've been working on for over 10 years, but I don't currently use anything fancy. If you want to work for a corporation you'll need to know ant, gradle, Spring, or other such tools. I just right click my project and select export as jar. Tools can make things easier, particularly if you're on a team of developers (I've had some help here and there but I'm basically a one man team), but some tools can also restrict what you're able to do. I like being able to customize every bit of code to do exactly what I had in mind. > Thank you Eric !!! -- dale - https://www.dalekelly.org/