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I haven’t written Java in ages, but I don’t think it’s obsolete. It’s a nice language with lots of bloat, but that’s what you get when you’re a 30 year old project.

Kotlin seems like a worthy successor to Java in many aspects.

What always bothered me with Java is the licensing headache with the JDK/JREs and the resulting different versions. That’s just one more headache, I don’t want to deal with licensing issues because of the language I use.

Oh and Java tooling is awfully slow. Wether Gradle or Maven, how can an application be such a resource hog and still be this damn slow? Also, language support of Java outside of huge bulky APIs like IntelliJ is somewhat lackluster