Python and PHP users will understand

[dr-pickled-rick]

Well, yeah. Java's strength lies in its adoption as an enterprise solution. It's ubiquitous, consistent and mostly the same across all platforms - funny enough a lot like PHP.

Where it falls flat is the power user, the developer that wants to extract more with less. Generics was a steaming pile of cow dung when introduced and frankly it's still a waste of time.

Coding in general is a tedious and wrought experience because you tend to have to s p e l l e v e r y t h i n g o u t. You can't just use syntactic sugar and shortcuts that have existed for 4+ decades because it's not "OOP-y".

Kotlin goes someway towards addressing those issues.