Java 9 is scheduled to launch in July
&quot;java&quot; and &quot;cool&quot; in the same sentence doesn&#x27;t compute for me. I die a little inside every time I&#x27;m forced to launch eclipse and work with The Old Stuff.<p>Actually after working with java from 97-07, I was so sick of it I started the process of changing careers and study medicine. Just imagine: solve people, not code!<p>Looking back, the main problem was probably Spring, Glassfish, IOC, XML, Maven and numerous other &quot;EE&quot; things that java-people assumed were a must 10 years ago.<p>I hear people these days do write fun, lightweight microservices that launches in seconds in java, but I&#x27;m scarred for life. Never again. Life is too short and there are <i>tons</i> of fun programming languages that are commercially viable.<p>(I never started medicine, programming is amazingly creative, just not java)