Definitely. While at times it feels like the Java Community Process moves at a snails pace, the maintainers of Java have done an incredibly good job modernizin

Definitely. While at times it feels like the Java Community Process moves at a snails pace, the maintainers of Java have done an incredibly good job modernizing Java and addressing its flaws over the years, while all the time maintaining backwards compatibility and, most importantly, keeping a single unified developer community. When you look at how dominant languages like Perl and even Python have stumbled between version changes, it underscores how much of an accomplishment this really is.