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I'm only using Java and IntelliJ occasionally, but haven't noticed any slowdowns. Wonder if people who complain just have slow PCs or Macs.

Those are week tools. If you want to greatly improve your evolutionary fitness have as many kids as possible (preferably with multiple partners). E.g. sign up as a sperm donor.

One of Putin bodygards or cooks will take over.

Why do physics, chemistry, biology keeps changing? Why don't scientists get it right once?

What a stupid question.

Of course everyone is free to have their own opinion, but for good reasons the opinions of the people who create new ORMs, frameworks, languages, OSs, lead big complex projects at big corp are generally valued more that the opinions of those who see dev work as nothing more than a way to make a buck.

And yes ORMs and other tools used in software industry often look over engineered if one doesn't want to understand in depth the problems they are solving, but wants to quickly solve a business problem.

Or maybe you haven't taken the time to learn those tools and techniques and this is why you think they are anti-patterns. The people who set the trends in the development industry are extremely smart.

Take for example ORMs - people already know SQL and are often too lazy or un-motivated to learn their ORM of choice in depth. So for them the ORM is confusing and SQl just works. But an ORM eliminates a ton of code that needs to be written and maintained. Boilerplate code to read a row from DB than map it to an object or a map. Boilerplate code to do DB inserts and updates. Optionally boileplate code to track changes. Any decent ORM allows one to bypass it's mechanisms and in the edge cases write SQL directly.

It's essentially the same argument people used countless times in the past - e.g. why learn a higher level language, if they never work and I can do anything in C.

Interesting who and why is doing the flagging.

What exactly does it do?

I live in UK, would it be able to work out how much tax I need to pay on crypto gains?