I actually appreciate the simplicity of bare Java. It can be verbose on one hand but on the other there are no surprises because everything is just a method cal

I actually appreciate the simplicity of bare Java. It can be verbose on one hand but on the other there are no surprises because everything is just a method call on an object with no operator overloading etc. Seems like they're kind of ruining that with bizarre things like "obj instanceof Point(int x, int y))". That doesn't connotate at all that it's calling x() on the point to get x, it looks like a field. Compare with C# which has a ton of convenience features and syntactic sugar but it's all intuitive and self-explanatory. Really I wish Java would go away and .NET would take over but it's too entrenched.