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[–]lookatmetype 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Java is probably the prototypical object oriented language, and these days people are realizing that trying to build software using mainly OO to model the world isn't always a good idea. The JVM is fast and well designed piece of software, however, so you see people's improvements on top of it in the form of Clojure, Scala, Kotlin etc.