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Pros of Java
Pros of Ruby
Pros of Stan
  • 604
    Great libraries
  • 446
    Widely used
  • 401
    Excellent tooling
  • 396
    Huge amount of documentation available
  • 334
    Large pool of developers available
  • 209
    Open source
  • 203
    Excellent performance
  • 158
    Great development
  • 150
    Used for android
  • 148
    Vast array of 3rd party libraries
  • 61
    Compiled Language
  • 53
    Used for Web
  • 47
    High Performance
  • 46
    Managed memory
  • 45
    Native threads
  • 43
    Statically typed
  • 35
    Easy to read
  • 33
    Great Community
  • 29
    Reliable platform
  • 24
    Sturdy garbage collection
  • 24
    JVM compatibility
  • 22
    Cross Platform Enterprise Integration
  • 20
    Good amount of APIs
  • 20
    Universal platform
  • 18
    Great Support
  • 14
    Great ecosystem
  • 11
    Lots of boilerplate
  • 11
    Backward compatible
  • 10
    Everywhere
  • 9
    Excellent SDK - JDK
  • 7
    Static typing
  • 7
    Cross-platform
  • 7
    It's Java
  • 6
    Mature language thus stable systems
  • 6
    Better than Ruby
  • 6
    Long term language
  • 6
    Portability
  • 5
    Clojure
  • 5
    Vast Collections Library
  • 5
    Used for Android development
  • 4
    Best martial for design
  • 4
    Most developers favorite
  • 4
    Old tech
  • 3
    Javadoc
  • 3
    History
  • 3
    Testable
  • 3
    Great Structure
  • 3
    Stable platform, which many new languages depend on
  • 2
    Type Safe
  • 2
    Faster than python
  • 0
    Job
  • 607
    Programme friendly
  • 538
    Quick to develop
  • 492
    Great community
  • 469
    Productivity
  • 432
    Simplicity
  • 274
    Open source
  • 235
    Meta-programming
  • 208
    Powerful
  • 157
    Blocks
  • 140
    Powerful one-liners
  • 70
    Flexible
  • 59
    Easy to learn
  • 52
    Easy to start
  • 42
    Maintainability
  • 38
    Lambdas
  • 31
    Procs
  • 21
    Fun to write
  • 19
    Diverse web frameworks
  • 14
    Reads like English
  • 10
    Makes me smarter and happier
  • 9
    Rails
  • 9
    Elegant syntax
  • 8
    Very Dynamic
  • 7
    Matz
  • 6
    Programmer happiness
  • 5
    Object Oriented
  • 4
    Elegant code
  • 4
    Friendly
  • 4
    Generally fun but makes you wanna cry sometimes
  • 4
    Fun and useful
  • 3
    There are so many ways to make it do what you want
  • 3
    Easy packaging and modules
  • 2
    Primitive types can be tampered with
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    Cons of Java
    Cons of Ruby
    Cons of Stan
    • 33
      Verbosity
    • 27
      NullpointerException
    • 17
      Nightmare to Write
    • 16
      Overcomplexity is praised in community culture
    • 12
      Boiler plate code
    • 8
      Classpath hell prior to Java 9
    • 6
      No REPL
    • 4
      No property
    • 3
      Code are too long
    • 2
      Non-intuitive generic implementation
    • 2
      There is not optional parameter
    • 2
      Floating-point errors
    • 1
      Java's too statically, stronglly, and strictly typed
    • 1
      Returning Wildcard Types
    • 1
      Terrbible compared to Python/Batch Perormence
    • 7
      Memory hog
    • 7
      Really slow if you're not really careful
    • 3
      Nested Blocks can make code unreadable
    • 2
      Encouraging imperative programming
    • 1
      No type safety, so it requires copious testing
    • 1
      Ambiguous Syntax, such as function parentheses
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      What is Java?

      Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!

      What is Ruby?

      Ruby is a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming.

      What is Stan?

      A state-of-the-art platform for statistical modeling and high-performance statistical computation. Used for statistical modeling, data analysis, and prediction in the social, biological, and physical sciences, engineering, and business.

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