JDK 19 Release Notes
As someone who spent the first 15 years of their career in Java, but has been out of the ecosystem for some time now, it's cool to see Java get such big improvements, especially virtual threads.<p>However, given the number of excellent JVM languages, especially Kotlin, I'm curious what the general consensus is for starting <i>new</i> projects. That is, if I were starting a greenfield project, I think I would definitely use Kotlin over Java - Kotlin doesn't have to deal with the backwards compatibility concerns of Java, and thus does away with some of the problematic annoying complexity of Java. E.g. first class language support for nullable/optional types I think is critical these days - Java has bolted on an Optional wrapper, but it's cumbersome and doesn't provide the kind of strong guarantees that a language-implemented version does.<p>So what does the HN community think? Would you use another JVM language over Java if you were starting a new project?