I realize this is controversial, and am not saying it is even rational. I spent years writing Java. And at the end I just decided that I could have written the same stuff in maybe 1/4 of the time. I understand that some people see benefits from all the tedium of it, but in the end I just felt like I had wasted and enormous amount of time. The cost was way high compared to the benefit.

My other reference is just as personal and perhaps just as irrational. Java was free to use. Then after many people and companies used this free tool, Oracle came along and wanted to exploit the fact that people had an investment in this. Yes. I know. Oracle can do what they like. They own it. But I can do what I like and that is not to use anything associated with Oracle. Ever. (EDIT: and yes I do know there are open source JVM's)

So, no. I guess I am not professional.