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		javcasas 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal? Imagine having to know the programming language used to write a program to run it. $ python foobar Nope. $ gcc foobar Nope. $ g++ foobar Aw,come on. $ go foobar Damnit. $ rust foobar $ c# foobar WTF did they use for this program??!! $ node foobar This is such a waste of time. $ java foobar Bullshit! $ ocaml foobar Come on, there arent't that many more programming languages! $ tcl foobar Finally!

maxandersen 3 months ago [–]

thats why you use jreleaser and publish it so you just run it as `foobar`

Lets please not mix up good dev flows with end user flows...this is not unique problem for java.

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