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...

it's fun to write code like that when you do it alone and have a well defined scope. now imagine trying to debug huge bloated Java code written by someone on the other side of the globe with comments like

//sets x to 2
x = 2;

and no other documentation. now imagine that in true ENTERPRISE fashion you don't have access to all the source code because muh secrets and you have to either treat it like a broken black box or decompile/disassemble it (protip: all decompilers are different flavors of shit while bytecode/jasmin/smali is assembly for a computer that doesn't exist).

the same goes for C++ and C# - the bigger and more enterprisey things get, the worse it is