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