u/AnxiousPeasant16

I wonder how reliable the JDK releases are. Is it possible that there are bugs in the compiler? Are they being tested thoroughly?

I am a software developer and have been working in a company for three years now, since graduating from school. My company is small, and I do many things. I create UI/UX for systems, then handle the frontend, and I also work on the backend, sometimes even project management. I want to change companies but the problem is that I know a little in all these fields and cannot decide which position to apply for. I am curious what it is like to work only as a UI/UX designer, Frontend programmer, and backend programmer.

UI/UX and design generally were something I always loved and practised, it's so easy and natural to me, but it feels like I am losing my potential if I only do that. I would enjoy working as a designer but feel like I won't be paid enough.

On the other hand, at school, programming in Java was amazing and now in university working with Spring Boot was so cool. I wonder if it's realistic to cover these three - the frontend, the backend and being good with UI/UX. To be able to create the whole app by myself. Then it comes to mind can't I be something like a tech lead one day?

I will be happy to hear from you what it is like to do each of these jobs and your opinions.

It's really interesting how life has changed amazingly since I started therapy. At the beginning, when I had an issue, I searched forums and read other people's stories. When I felt really bad, I wrote down my thoughts on a piece of paper or created mind maps of my problems (how fun that was, especially when you realise that you cannot fix everything all at once in one day). Later I asked artificial intelligence about my problems. It helped at the moment but not in the long run (that is just me). Right now I don't feel the need to use any instrument or tool; I don't need that urge to fix the problem RIGHT NOW.

But sometimes, like a normal human being, I need support. The problem is that it's hard for me to support myself, to know that I am on the right path, or to trust myself. Since the beginning of my therapy, there were a few people who supported me - my mother and my sister. None of my friends understood me. They thought that was too much. That therapy was for crazy people. Also, I care a lot about other people's opinions about me. That leads me to the situation where I don't know what I want any more. And you know what, when I ask myself what I want, what "fits me", I feel empowered to be myself.

I still have the routine to begin to worry when someone criticises me or gives me advice. Oh God, how much I hate being told what to do! But you know what, I have an objective guilt for people giving me advice when I don't want to. They don't know I don't want it, and that is my problem right now. I am scared to say what I want; I am scared to say, "I just need you to listen to me, I don't want advice". It comes to my mind that they will think that I am strange - this is what scares me. I will be the strange guy that no one will be friends with. I don't want to be rejected.

It's amazing how I am hypersensitive about rejection. When my friends tell me jokes, my coworkers, my girlfriend, I feel scared that this indicates that they will leave me and hate me. But life is an unprofessional psychologist, as said in one book for Dummies, and thank God I rejected some friends who weren't there for me; I see that no one hates me, that they invite me to gatherings and we have an amazing time together.

That hypersensitivity makes me not do some things, like I am worried about bothering someone by calling them on the phone. Which I can see is absurd just by writing it down. I also see how I just called my mind absurd. But in reality it's really amazing, and yeah, sometimes it drives me crazy, but step by step I learn to be better than yesterday.

I am just worried if I am a good friend, son or boyfriend. I see how I need more support, but to scared to ask for it because then I will be myself and maybe some people would not like that. But that is what makes life interesting, isn't it, and I am living MY life right?

I will figure this out, and I deeply know that it will take time. Just sometimes everything seems too dramatic, and I need support. I don't need advice, haha; I have therapy. Just wanted to write this down here. Hey, it's my first post also 😄 . My English is not the best, but hey, it's my English, and it will get better one step at a time. Take care!

I notice that I’m trying to write the perfect code—objectively good code that couldn’t be any better—but this causes me too much anxiety, and I realise that maybe things aren’t quite like that. For example, I try to make my solution 100% secure, very fast, efficient, and intuitive. Sometimes I even worry that I’ve created too many classes in the code. I feel like I just need to practice and stop just reading, watching tutorials, or asking AI. I also find myself thinking that maybe there’s no perfect solution, just one that works for the problem at hand. In other words, there will always be compromises. That’s why I’m asking you: what makes a program, a piece of code, or a solution great? I’d really love to hear your thoughts as well.

When people say "install Java 9", they mean the JDK, right? Isn't there something else? This leads me to the question, do JDKs come preinstalled with Windows, for example? I remember when I was installing a popular game with blocks, every tutorial said to install JDK. Nowadays, the game was bought by Microsoft, and the launcher has changed completely, so it looks like there is no need for manual installation of JDK.