• UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 days ago

    STOP DOING C++

    • Templates were not supposed to make your error messages explode into unrecognizable gibberish
    • “Yes, please generate 5000 pages of garbage instead of an understandable error message!” - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

    Look at what compilers have been demanding your respect for all this time:

    ???

    They have played us for absolute fools.

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      10 days ago

      Since Java 14 it looks like this:

      Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NullPointerException:

      Cannot invoke “String.toLowerCase()” because the return value of “com.baeldung.java14.npe.HelpfulNullPointerException$PersonalDetails.getEmailAddress()” is null

      at com.baeldung.java14.npe.HelpfulNullPointerException.main(HelpfulNullPointerException.java:10)

      • Buttons@programming.dev
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        10 days ago

        I haven’t written any Java since Java 6. This makes me so happy to hear.

        What about XML, and XML based configs? Is the Java ecosystem still obsessed with XML?

        I remember I was once trying to learn Hibernate. After finding what I thought looked like the best tutorial, I skimmed through it and there was literally no Java code in the tutorial about a Java library! It was all XML! I never could understand it, but this was early in my career, maybe I could handle it now, maybe not.