You can read this to see how modern java differs from the java 15 years ago: https://wittchen.io/posts/an-opinionated-guide-to-modern-java-by-parallel-universe/

You can read this to see how modern java differs from the java 15 years ago: https://wittchen.io/posts/an-opinionated-guide-to-modern-java-by-parallel-universe/ https://wittchen.io/posts/an-opinionated-guide-to-modern-jav... Also the JVM is highly optimized, more stable and faster than most other runtimes (and it can run must of the other languages).