Java 12
I understand why Java has to keep on chugging along, but I feel bad for the people that have to be a part of it. It's like watching people keep coal trains going while people are moving to cars.Why? Besides being owned by Oracle, which is enough of a reason to never use Java ever again, it's also lost the niches that brought it into existence. Java no longer runs everywhere. Java on the web is dead, and you can now write ubiquitous apps in basically every language. There's no reason to deal with the JVM and it's domain knowledge when you can write a nimble Go app for your backend and a Javascript app that will run on mobile, web, or desktop. A VM language? You mean v8 sandboxing and web workers; WASM which lets me write C, C++, and Rust all of which can talk to Javascript APIs. All of my services are stateless and ephemeral. Crashing is expected, and I can use host monitoring tools instead of introspecting the JDK. On the cloud it gets even worse for Java. Why use a meaty framework like Spring when I want to just spin up a bunch of micro services, or have an API gateway kickoff a bunch of lambda jobs.Java also took OO in so many terrible directions. OO defined by it's creator looks nothing like the enterprise OO that big business sold to commoditize programming, which now only exists as a ball and chain on legacy systems.One day Java will be like Cobol. There's probably a lot of money for Java developers for many more decades, but god I do not envy anyone that has to do it.