Why do many software engineers not like Java? This question was originally answered on Quora.

If you need Java, use this one instead My ZDNet colleague Ed Bott has exposed some icky practices at Oracle regarding their monetization of the end-user JRE install.

The next two code listings show String comparisons performed with the traditional if-else using equals approach and the newly available switching on strings approach. StringsWithIfElseDemo.java ...