Common Java Myths (Score 1)

I have to say as a Java Programmer a lot of people end up with slow Java programs cause they are bad programmers not due to the language. Most people think oh Java I don't need to worry about pointers or memory usages it will take care of it for me, and they proceed to write absolute shit for code. The amount that I learned after 2 years of programming the language full time was amazing. You really need to understand what you are doing in the language when are generating garbage when you are doing stupid things like creating a vector with 10 elements and then trying to stick 10,000 objects into it, instead of presizing things intelligently to avoid all the memory copies. I also used to see a lot of stupid things like people copying arrays in for loops instead of using System.arrayCopy. Anyway I suggest people learn how to actually use the language before they blame the language for their own personal inadequiecies as programmers. Of course this is the slashdot crowd so most of you couldn't write more than 10 lines of code anyway. The only complaint that is valid I think is startup time. People should be running the server vm and there is a startup penalty you pay with it, but really if you start your application and it takes 2 seconds it isn't the end of the world considering you will get c++ performance. If you run the client vm you will get faster startup, but poor application speed. Also there are a ton of bad swing programmers out there, who either A don't understand multithreaded programming or B don't understand good gui design, or even worse both. I suggest people spend some time on JGoodies Website to learn something about good looking swing UI's.