On 24/01/14 15:11, Jeroen De Dauw wrote:
Java is a technology with strong and weak sides, like
any other.
Religiously labeling anything that resembles something from it as evil
because you do not like it is perhaps not the most constructive approach
one can take. That is quite obvious of course. From my vantage point, it
definitely seems like a lot of this is going on in the MediaWiki community
with regards to this topic and several others. Do you think this is not the
case - good for you. It is however the reason I am very reluctant to join
any such discussions, and I know this is the case for many other people as
well.
I think the term "javaification" was introduced to the discussion by
Nik, who is the Java developer working on CirrusSearch, as a kind of
joking self-deprecation. I don't think anyone intended to imply that
everything to do with Java is bad. Daniel proposed an ideal code
architecture as consisting of a non-trivial network of trivial classes
-- a bold and precise vision. Nobody was uncivil or deprecating in
their response.
-- Tim Starling