&gt; I find the readability is where Java&#x27;s verbosity really hurts it.<p>I&#x27;d agree, but on the JVM there are plenty of statically-typed languages with clean interop that permit more concise expressions than Java, so I don&#x27;t see conciseness alone as a reason to go to a dynamic JVM language. (That said, Java is getting better at this over time, though its still, to me, a pretty big negative for Java.)