Java is interesting because it's always prioritized backwards compatibility, but the changes that have shown up recently or are in progress are pretty big: lamb

Java is interesting because it's always prioritized backwards compatibility, but the changes that have shown up recently or are in progress are pretty big: lambdas, value objects and type inference can all be argued to go against some important aspect of how the language was originally conceived. You might argue it's changed the least, but only because all languages change a great deal.