Agreed. A lot of complaints about Java are because of shit APIs (standard library) rather than the language itself. It's certainly possible to write beautiful

Agreed. A lot of complaints about Java are because of shit APIs (standard library) rather than the language itself. It's certainly possible to write beautiful code in Java, it's just not very common :) One thing that Java could benefit from greatly would be type inference. That alone would remove so much syntactical noise. Honestly, who cares that you need to write a Main class? This is quite commonplace, and only really inhibits scripting tasks. In any real application, this is a non-issue.