I am starting to like Java

Building abstraction upon abstraction, design pattern upon design pattern, isn't as much of a chore as it felt before.

I feel like I am building a large structure to solve a simple problem, like a rube goldberg machine, and I can revel in the complexity.

There is a certain zen-like quality in chaining seemingly unrelated design patterns together to create a crazy behemoth that still completes the task assigned.

I suppose doing Enterprise™ Java™ Development™ for a living won't be so bad, after all...

I have proven that Java is, in fact, as slow as balls.
https://progrider.org/fossil/tree?ci=tip&name=antifibs
java time: 136 ms
python time: 62 ms
racket time: 473 ms
That's right, this dung-heap of an language is twice as slow as FIOC. What a joke. Larry Page is a fucking idiot.