I don't think Jenkins is a good indication of modern Java :) If anything Jenkins is a hairy ball of mud you should try to avoid :p I write exclusively Clojure

I don't think Jenkins is a good indication of modern Java :) If anything Jenkins is a hairy ball of mud you should try to avoid :p I write exclusively Clojure on the JVM now; its like having all the advantages of the JVM and none of the inconvenients of Java!