My experience with languages is that people want more exotic languages as they gain experience, than they grow away from them and go back to pragmatic ones. I t

My experience with languages is that people want more exotic languages as they gain experience, than they grow away from them and go back to pragmatic ones. I think Java strikes a great balance here, and while I also had a phase where I thought how much better Scala is for example, I can appreciate java much more nowadays and will default to it for most projects.