I am aware of that, but Java is the most popular language that runs on the JVM. I don’t specifically dislike other JVM languages, though one of my issues is type erasure and that’s partially a limitation of the JVM.

“Feeding garbage to OCR” is a really boring way of generating text. I was assuming it would be something more interesting, like creating a symbolic representation of the splatters and generating text from that. Using OCR is basically piping /dev/urandom to perl and seeing what happens. The fact that they’re valid perl programs is worth a laugh but the generation method is totally uninteresting.

Better to not have version control!? Dear god I hope I never work on anything with you.

I think the word you want is minutiae?

That sounds like a great way to set yourself up for spectacular failures down the road

You’re also a programming language design nerd? Like, “Compare the features of language A to those of language B”, or nerding out about the underlying mechanics of things like generic types, virtual method dispatch, and no-stop garbage collection? I thought I was the only one. Well not the only one but it doesn’t seem that popular of a thing to nerd out over.

Maybe these days. That definitely was not true when I was growing up, or even a decade ago.

I could use Google but I’m looking for opinions not just what journals have that kind of content

I’ve been using GitLab for years. I have a GitHub account but at this point I only use it to contribute to other projects.

GitLab. You can use their SaaS offering (gitlab.com) or run the open source version on your own server(s).

Most experienced developers already agree with you

GitLab started requiring a credit card because they got flooded with people using CI to mine crypto.