I love the jvm, I love the tooling and the ecosystem, but Java I do not love. The author presents many of Java 7/8 features as a reason for Java's greatness. T

I love the jvm, I love the tooling and the ecosystem, but Java I do not love. The author presents many of Java 7/8 features as a reason for Java's greatness. The language features of Java 7/8 are really not that compelling. Let's consider that C# has had much a more progressive approach to language design for a while now. Most places I've worked at recently have moved to Java 8 because 7 has been EOLed. It feels like we were pushed onto 8 rather than enticed by its shininess. What makes Java great isn't java it's the jvm. It's such a brilliant piece of engineering. What makes the jvm 'meh' is it's association with java. The arguments the author makes about Java being great are in my eyes really about the JVM, its tooling and its languages.