I went from writing shell scripts all day to writing Perl scripts all day to writing Java most of the day. From having to write everything in vi (not vim) with

I went from writing shell scripts all day to writing Perl scripts all day to writing Java most of the day. From having to write everything in vi (not vim) with no IDE support to IntelliJ basically spoon-feeding me, the "boring" technology being alluded to in this thread is "new-tech" for me. And boy I am so grateful for decent type support, vast ecosystem and a chance to focus on design patterns and clean code. Just to provide an alternate perspective for those who think Java is "boring".