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Very interesting question. The benefits of a new language has to be weighed against the learning that has to be done to use it and the load of maintaining things in different languages. It's not every 3 years or anything like that, but Java is 20 years old now, and it shows.

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And another generation of programmers wastes time rewriting the same stuff in the language du jour.

This is going to happen anyway.

> It's not every 3 years or anything like that, but Java is 20 years old now, and it shows.

Yes, I get to use mature libraries for everything without having to spend development time redoing them, and can focus on business code instead.

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