Most evolution on the platform is in the VM and tooling rather than the language, and the language is conservative and slow-moving by design (it was part of the

Most evolution on the platform is in the VM and tooling rather than the language, and the language is conservative and slow-moving by design (it was part of the "charter" back when Java was created). This has worked very well. OTOH, Java programmers look in astonishment at how far behind most other platforms are in GC, compilation, and observability.