Y'all are surprising me with your programming opinions

Then again, JavaScript or whatever apparently has a Math.max function, while C doesn't

@vaporeon_ software eggineering poisons your brain

@wallhackio Are you referring to yourself or to me or to us all?

@vaporeon_ I'm referring to anyone who writes code for money instead of writing code for fun

@vaporeon_ this is not a slight on Holly. i hope that is clear. she does code golf so you know she actually likes coding for the hell of it

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ oh yeah all this goes out the window when you're golfing. sometimes it's fun to let loose and write some horseshit

@monorail @vaporeon_ my worst code practices occur when i hack a solution to a challenging data structures/algorithms problem

@wallhackio How can you have bad code practices when there's no such thing as good Java code, it's all terrible

@vaporeon_ I've done DS&A problems in JavaScript and written some nightmarish oneliners doing that

@wallhackio Your work has you write both Java and JavaScript?

@vaporeon_ full-stack software eggineer ​

@wallhackio Your company's server backend is written in Java?

@vaporeon_ I am currently not working there, I was laid off in June, but yes it was

This is actually extremely normal since Java was extremely popular during the dot.com boom of the late 90's/early 2000's and the most appealing alternative was C++, so obviously people used Java instead

An enormous amount of critical codebases run on Java

@wallhackio I thought PHP was the typical language for writing web server backends?

@vaporeon_ Maybe that was true at one time, but it would be unusual today