&gt; Even if you&#x27;re right.<p>I can provide some presentations from Java Language Summit<p>&gt; Counting on compiler optimizations to save your ass is incredibly, incredibly brittle.<p>I agree.<p>Ada, Delphi, Modula-3, Oberon or Eiffel could have been in Java&#x27;s place with the right stewardship, but sadly it wasn&#x27;t it.<p>I also don&#x27;t see it getting replaced anytime soon, hence why I welcome the idea of eventually getting value types and proper AOT on the reference JDK while keeping the huge set of libraries that we have available.<p>In any case, I am both a language geek and a polyglot developer, so I have fun discussing this kind of subjects not being language zealot.