I'll give an example. At my previous company there was a program where you basically select a start date, select an end date, select the system and press a button and it reaches out to a database and pulls all the data following that matches those parameters. The horrors of this were 1. The queries were hard coded.

They were stored in a configuration file, in xml format.
The queries were not 1 entry. It was 4, a start, the part between start date and end date, the part between end date and system and then the end part. All of these were then concatenated in the program intermixed with variables.
This was then sent to the server as pure sql, no orm.
Here's my favorite part. You obviously don't want anyone modifying the configuration file so they encrypted it. Now I know what you're thinking at some point you probably will need to modify or add to the configuration so you store an unencrypted version in a secure location. Nope! The program had the ability to encrypt and decrypt but there were no visible buttons to access those functions. The program was written in winforms. You had to open the program in visual studio, manually expand the size of the window(locked size in regular use) and that shows the buttons. Now run the program in debug. Press the decrypt button. DO NOT EXIT THE PROGRAM! Edit the file in a text editor. Save file. Press the encrypt button. Copy the encrypted file to any other location on your computer. Close the program. Manually email the encrypted file to anybody using the file.

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[–] potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

it wasn't funny in any way, but J~~SHIT~~BOSS "microservice" (it was a jboss service with one microservice inside, in a kubernetes pod, with only one core, tell me about redundancy). Service classes with over 2000 lines of code, it shouldn't even be called spaghetti code, more like lasagna code, the pasta came in layers, separation of concerns was a mere suggestion, code was not thread safe (and it needed to be), but there was only 40 Ejbs for each "stateless" service inside de EAR, so number go up, code goes better.

I refactored it, it's now in the glorious quarkus 3.27, on virtual threads and java 21, not hyperbole, but 5x more throughput and you don't need 7 phds in italian cousine.

Edit: I also saw, in Angular, the infamous:

if (variable === true || variable === 'true' || variable === "true") {

[–] vrek@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why does it seem like Java is always the language with the worst code?

I mostly do local programs with c# or python so alot of your comment didn't make sense to me like quarks and ejbs but yeah it sounds horrible.

[–] potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The most used language has the most of the worst code, quarkus is a new framework (and very good), ejbs are enterprise java beans (the worst thing ever made).

I think a lot of the code was written by a lot of people in a rush, very backend of the backend, but EXTREMELY needed. Java is hated (I hate it too), but the new things in it? It's amazing too (I only love the new stuff).

[–] vrek@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm thinking of diversifying, do you think Java or Javascript would be better?

[–] potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What is your purpose?

Do you just want a job or do you want to program for fun? If you want backend, that'll be very different than frontend, do you want corporate or startup?

I didn't care about that, but I think java, for backend would be a first choice, as it has the biggest amount of "it just works with that".

I think scala is cool too, very modern and with A LOT of less boilerplate, all the JVM support, so it can work with almost anything in the backend, but for working for jobs, it's not very used.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I had a job as a software engineer at corporate job but got let go. Mostly I enjoy backend. I can do front end programming but am very bad at making pretty things. Like sketch something out for what you want for a interface I can program it, but ask me "just make an gui for users" and it will be like win-me quality of bad.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

JavaScript might be more widely appliable. Java is good to learn, too. If you learn Java, you can also learn Kotlin which is a glorious language to work with.