Java is the opposite of boring. It lacks basic fundamentals such as algebraic data types and pattern matching. You will be kicking and screaming the whole ride.

Java is the opposite of boring. It lacks basic fundamentals such as algebraic data types and pattern matching. You will be kicking and screaming the whole ride. A boring language would be a language where you aren't triggered/bothered by its basic ergonomics and hygiene. In Java, you must translate discrete variants into dogmatic OO paradigm instead of using language primitives. Thanks to Java's poor design, it's fundamentally a hazard and a land mine thanks to null not being first class in type system. The use of null as a value inhabiting any type should result in a slap in the face upon opening a pull request (until Java adopts type-safe optionals like Kotlin) P.S. Switch expressions and sealed interfaces aren't there yet, Kotlin and Scala are still the only options if you are imprisoned to JVM.