People have a strange idea of what "best and brightest" work entails. I work with Java 8 on a greenfield high-frequency transaction platform for a very large c

People have a strange idea of what "best and brightest" work entails. I work with Java 8 on a greenfield high-frequency transaction platform for a very large company. It is extremely satisfying to build the "world's largest" of something, and no amount of shiny features in a cute new language would deter me from this work.