The way this is phrased gives a bad name to those mythical enterprise/old/Java developers. I personally don't want to be associated with this stereotype, I have

The way this is phrased gives a bad name to those mythical enterprise/old/Java developers. I personally don't want to be associated with this stereotype, I have another 20 years of interviews in the future. I started programming in Java in 2002. I had some of your stated attitude learning Scala ten years ago. Probably because I grew up on Turbo Pascal and C++ , majored in EE, and didn't hear about PL theory. I cannot fathom anyone wishing to go back to Java after using Scala (as a better Java, without cats/scalaz&Co) or at least Kotlin. The way you describe new Java features I'd think you come from a golang background. I have nothing against staying on the JVM for the rest of my career. For this to be feasible we need modern languages fully supported and popular. I personally want more concise syntax and more elegant abstractions in my daily life.