4 years after, I still don't understand!

Why does everyone hate Java so much?

To me it seems like it's got it's strengths and weakness like any other language.

I'm aware of it's weakness but I don't think that the amount of hatred upon the whole language is justified.

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There is a server written in Java, and a client in C sends over an array of 200032435 unsigned integers. The server receives 200032435 signed ints, and needs to assign each one into a different array, that is twice as large, using a conversion formula. You must use at least twice as much memory.

There is a server written in Java, and a client in C sends over an array of 200032435 unsigned long longs. Guess what, now you are fucked, and you have to make an array of BigInts, which need allocation, which uses dynamic memory, which causes the gc to run periodically, which causes you to get out of sync with the client, periodically, and now the application has a jump, periodically.

Not supporting unsigned types is ridiculous. I can't imagine there being an architecture with support for signed arithmetic and no support for unsigned arithmetic. It's madness.