I've always had some sort of mistrust of Java (neo-Cobol ohnoes!) but I'm liking it more and more. Mostly I've come around to the fact that static typing isn't as bad as my young self thought (and can in fact be quite cool). The verbosity and "enterprisy" and committee oriented feel are still a bit off putting but I've made a commitment to try some Java on a couple of weekends. Did a bit of research and there's actually nice looking lean web-stuff, too (Spark Framework, Ratpack).
Played with the J8 features back when it was released and they are pretty cool.
Cliffnotes: I think I have discriminated against Java mostly on a "religious" basis. I think it's a great time for people like me to give it another shot (especially if you have grown accustomed to functional ideas form other languages in the meantime).
Cliffnotes: I think I have discriminated against Java mostly on a "religious" basis. I think it's a great time for people like me to give it another shot (especially if you have grown accustomed to functional ideas form other languages in the meantime).
The repo is an excellent resource, bookmarked.