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<engage irony>

Not at all, you should learn a more macho language like C++, where you can suffer, acquire scars, loose countless hours to weird template errors, learn the intricacies of writing code that has to compile on different compilers that don't agree on the syntax or semantics of the language, fight with crappy tooling, use IDEs that barely manage to do auto-completion, encounter all kinds of bizarre hardware and OS behaviour that the Java runtime shields you from, resulting in code that doesn't compile or run anymore every 6 months when part of your compiler or library toolchain changes, and acquire skills that are largely useful only as bragging rights



Please don't do programming language flamewars here.




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