It's interesting to watch Java doing the same thing at the moment (IHMO). They got obsessed with the runtime size 10 years ago and in solving that we now have a

It's interesting to watch Java doing the same thing at the moment (IHMO). They got obsessed with the runtime size 10 years ago and in solving that we now have a module system that breaks backwards compatibility. But many of the problems we do have are either not being addressed or are not getting serious treatment. Already we have much of the community still sitting on Java 8 even as the new long term release JDK11 has been made. It wouldn't surprise me at all if JDK8 becomes the Python2 of the java world: 10 years from now, there will still be whole segments of the community using it.