Java review

Good:

- 5 year olds should be able to learn how to make multithreaded applications
- Cross platform
- Great development tools (IDEs and such)
- You don't have to make/download amounts of libraries to develop great and helpful apps, the standard library is huge

Bad:

- Memory hog
- Java programmers: Herppppp Derpppp, internal char array?? nooo, its a string, what internal char array?? what is that
- No function pointers
- No operator overloading
- Everything is a reference, unless you implement Cloneable, sorry, i prefer "&"
- No #define

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1. "Java" doesn't have a UI. A number of different UI toolkits for Java exist, including SWT, which uses the native widgets from your platform and looks exactly as you would expect.
That's very nice and all, but I've yet to use a Java application whose UI doesn't look and feel completely out of place. Extra points if it doesn't even follow basic keyboard conventions.

All things considered, the end result is not much better than running something in a VM. Sure, the benchmarks will tell you you're getting 90% of the native performance, but the rest of the experience will be so mediocre that you'll desperately want out.