I agree with your opinion about Scala. However, my point was that Java will continue to be always good enough to steal thunder from more promising languages. (

I agree with your opinion about Scala. However, my point was that Java will continue to be always good enough to steal thunder from more promising languages. ( I realize that Oracle may find a way to screw it up) Had JDK 7 not included Fork/Join and had Actor model implementations such as Jetlang, Kilim and FunctionalJava not been developed, there could have been a strong case to call Java dated and explore Scala in the enterprise. I began exploring Scala / Clojure to deal with multicore CPUs .concurrency etc. but that is no longer a valid concern. Java was never elegant to start with -- it just barely got the job done -- and continues to get the job done and that is good enough. They say that when you have a hammer, everything looks like a Nail. Java is my hammer.