Apparently, in the world of development, Java is a giant joke. It’s a giant in several ways. It’s easy to start learning and using, but in order to really know it, you have to spend immense amounts of time learning just the standard library alone. Add to that all of the extra classes that you’ll undoubtedly come across, and you have one massive language.

It’s also gigantic because it really wasn’t written with efficiency in mind. I mean, char is two bytes and none of the primitives are unsigned. It’s a pain the butt to translate C code over to Java because of this, especially when there are bits to be shifted. Essentially, the way around this is to treat each byte as a larger type, like a short or int.

But once you get into Java development, you’ll learn that Java is the joke and that the punchline will always be, without fail, “Write once, run everywhere”.

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