Pretty much everything you just noted is incorrect! The ecosystem is a giant cestpool of badly written annotation hell, there is no usable documentation whatsoever, The tooling makes the experience barely better than living hell and writing Java feels like doing things worse than any other programming language out there because the language devs have severe C++ PTSD and refuse any useful programming concept from that language outright!

You poor fool

Yeah, that’s what I thought. Another useless AI hater. You people are even worse than the AI fanboy techbros! AI is a wonderful tool for those who know how to use it. It has increased my productivity by at least 30% and it can do all the mundane and boring coding while I focus on the interesting aspects!

“Good code” is not well defined and your example shows this perfectly. LMDBs codebase is absolutely horrendous when your quality criterias for good code are Readability and Maintainability. But it’s a perfect masterpiece if your quality criteria are Performance and Efficiency.

Most modern Software should be written with the first two in mind, but for a DBMS, the latter are way more important.

No, it’s a car that breaks down once you go faster than 60km/h. It’s extremely useful if you know what you’re doing and use it only for tasks that it’s good at.