>As for the JVM and Java, this seems like a guilty admission that the CLR and C# ate their lunch a decade ago I disagree. The JVM continues to eat the lunch of

>As for the JVM and Java, this seems like a guilty admission that the CLR and C# ate their lunch a decade ago I disagree. The JVM continues to eat the lunch of the CLR in performance, developer mindshare, pervasiveness and ecosystem. And with each new Java version those language feature differences continue to decline. And if you do need that syntactic sugar then there's always Kotlin.