Yes, it is terrible and it's the main reason I'll never be doing any Java, ever again. I did 10 years up until Java 6 (or so) and then jumped ship in favour of

Yes, it is terrible and it's the main reason I'll never be doing any Java, ever again. I did 10 years up until Java 6 (or so) and then jumped ship in favour of Scala (at that point.) Now, Scala for sure isn't perfect and Java isn't terrible, but mainstream Java really is. My point, though, is not to throw up all over Java but rather to quibble with the statement that Java has somehow evolved since then. It really hasn't!