Angry Sun on Nostr: Java and enterprise design and project management are tightly coupled, an insane ...

Java and enterprise design and project management are tightly coupled, an insane amount of effort has been pumped into figuring out how to take a large team of people that you hired from India or Romania and give them simple instructions and you get a basically working product out of it. No other ecosystem comes close to this in magnitude. Other languages assume a much higher level of competence.

I don’t buy that it’s just how people are taught because in school I remember most people could barely comprehend Java. These are people that hate the command line and can’t figure out how to link something in C. The university takes anybody who can get a loan and lets them take any major they want and then dumbs down the curriculum because dropouts stop paying.

Java is an example of how everything in tech gets dumbed down to the lowest barrier to entry at the expense of potential. You could take some of these people and teach them a good language but that would take a little more up front effort because the tools aren’t as polished and then more people would drop the course. I noticed this when I was creating materials for cybersecurity students too. If it’s not idiot-simple, people just dropped the course. The two biggest problems were that people hated command line and many of them couldn’t figure out how to install the necessary vpn software on their computer.

Sometimes things have a minimum aptitude level but university is a business and computers are associated with high pay and things like cybersecurity sound sexy so it brings in tuition and you can’t tell them no