Comment by atomicnumber3

I really don't think this stance aged well, even if it was closer to true way back when. IMO the spartan language is now Go, and Java has ended up the boring open source workhorse. The jvm is very performant compared to many stacks these days (python Ruby node) while still having a very compelling concurrent programming story, and has a lot of nice language feature things ever since 8 and onwards. Lambdas and streams are the big 8's, but I think virtual threads growing up and even new things like scoped variables are really compelling reasons to build a new thing in java right now.