Java works great on large teams.  The stuff that people complain about as &quot;too much boilerplate&quot; and &quot;super boring&quot; when you&#x27;re writing code is actually really awesome when you have to read a bunch of code and half the people who wrote it are gone.  Boring is better than clever when it comes to maintenance.<p>They&#x27;re conservative about adding features, so they&#x27;ve managed to keep the language pretty small, and the core concepts of &quot;what is good Java code&quot; have been mostly the same for like 15 years, even through major releases like 1.5.