I agree on the strong typing note. That being said, IntelliJ's IDEA is fantastic at hiding a lot of the boilerplate in Java (like getters and setters and all t

I agree on the strong typing note. That being said, IntelliJ's IDEA is fantastic at hiding a lot of the boilerplate in Java (like getters and setters and all those import statements at the top of the file) and modern Java is FAR FAR better about being less verbose than it was in 1.0 Java also has Lombok (https://projectlombok.org/ https://projectlombok.org/) that hides almost all of the repetitive stuff completely.