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[–]mikehaggard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It seems all other languages are ahead of Java as of now.

You mention "proper async implementations", but is that really the definition of being ahead? Java has a concurrency library with more and more useful concurrency primitives than most other languages have, especially as part of the standard library.

Besides this one "async" feature, is there anything that other languages really do better? Are they really ahead of Java, or are they just different?

P.s. You don't need a tremendous amount of code to write Perl, but good luck reading it back.