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It's a 29 year old language. It has done an amazing job adapting over time and is a technical marvel (and I still think it is a better than average language overall) but there are tons of valid criticisms of it and I don't begrudge someone not loving the language.

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The language is old, the JVM is not. As a human i am happy that my language is well understood, independent of how old i am. I can express myself, and thats what counts. From time to time we get new words. But i do not have to ditch the old stuff. Is it not astounding how old many of the programming languages have become?

They do a great job of keeping the language fresh, on many levels. Java streams, encryption, syntax updates. It doesn’t feel old to me.

Yeah. But people will be like

“Java sucks. Ruby/Python/Haskell is the shit”

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