So, every time I use a library to recognize patterns on a picture, to interact with Kafka, do some SSL, or do database mapping, I should hate myself, noted

We did Elastic API integration in Java by creating and maintaining huge half-codegenerated transformer from code to Elasticsearch's JSONs, it was a pain and it was source of more than one error

Dependences should be reviewed and audited to make sure they do what you need and they are worth using. Just making everything in-house gets you nowhere most of the time

[–] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

You code in Java, of course you should self flagellate on a daily basis just for that. The entire ecosystem is completely fucked.