[concerndc1tizen]

I love Java in the same way.

But that free-thinking definition of Java clashes with the mainstream beliefs in the Java ecosystem, and you'll get a lot opposition at workplaces.

So I gave up on Java, not because of the language, but because of the people, and the forced culture around it.

[wood_spirit]

The over engineering creeps in anywhere there is collaboration. It’s not a Java thing, it’s a corporate thing. The new teammate who refactors the perfectly working sql pipeline; the teammate who makes story points a required field on your trouble ticket system, the teammate who just saw a conference talk on rust and wants to apply it etc. Most engineers are not zen masters seeking out simplicity; they are lost with poor grasp of desired business outcomes so they procrastinate by adding complexity and indirection and focusing on tech as if it were the destination not the journey.

[gorjusborg]

> lost with a poor grasp of desired business outcomes so they procrastinate by adding complexity

I have come to see this as a mix of business people and developers not doing their jobs to protect thier paycheck. Business people, if they want to succeed, need to be converging on a strategy that makes money. Developers need to have a strategy for removing technical barriers to realizing that strategy. The lack of a business strategy often makes an overly general technical platform look attractive.

> focusing on the tech as if it were the destination

So common. Complexity should be considered the enemy, not an old friend.

[90s_dev]

True, but there's also the bored engineers who just can't force themselves to write enterprise code unless they make it fun for themselves. I'm absolutely convinced this is why Clojure even exists and is so widely used in fintech.

[zelphirkalt]

The extreme focus on multiple layers of patterns, where actually a simple function would have sufficed IS a Java ecosystem and culture thing. Just way too many people doing Java, who have never learned another language or ecosystem, let alone paradigm, thinking "I learned Java, Java can do everything, I don't need to learn anything else!" and now feeling they need to solve every problem by applying design patterns mindlessly.