Java ain't no Scala to have any unusual prerequisites. It was designed as the golang of the day and that still shows in its lack of particularly sophisticated f

Java ain't no Scala to have any unusual prerequisites. It was designed as the golang of the day and that still shows in its lack of particularly sophisticated features. Speaking of beginners, I'd venture to say that Java has the largest library by now. From Core Java to Java Concurrency in Practice, pretty much everything was well described years ago. The same is true about Design Patterns/Refactoring/DDD-related literature which was originally popularized mostly in the Java world. I actually agree that JVM-like platforms should not be used for teaching beginners. Something like Python (or TypeScript?) is probably appropriate for high school usage. In my time it was Borland Pascal which was a nice first real language and a great IDE. All on a single floppy disk :))) I