> Java, JDK 1.1. was released in 97. Things were very different 24 years ago, the language ecosystem was not as competitive as it is today. There are more peop

> Java, JDK 1.1. was released in 97. Things were very different 24 years ago, the language ecosystem was not as competitive as it is today. There are more people writing code today and a greater variety of use cases when it comes to web services. Python is even older than Java (1991). A language being developed today must pass a higher bar. For example Rust has nowhere near the same level of adoption as Java did back then, but it is by no means a mediocre/overcomplicated language for systems programmers. Same with Go for web services and many others. > It is like Scala, which introduced lots of concepts, but went overboard with them and made the language too complex to use. What concepts are you referring to here? I'm not deeply familiar with Scala.