> Java can be really fast and handle big codebases too, and it’s also been huge for long enough it can buy a beer, and it’s also getting a little hairy. IMO Ja

> Java can be really fast and handle big codebases too, and it’s also been huge for long enough it can buy a beer, and it’s also getting a little hairy. IMO Java is so simple you can teach it to any programmer in a day or two. I'm not sure which part are "hairy", maybe frameworks? Memory order is hard but that's only very rarely used in idiomatic Java, and mostly through the atomic wrappers. Synchronized is simpler than equivalent barriers in almost all other languages. There aren't that many keywords, no operator overloading, barely any metaprogramming (just annotations), almost no compile flags, etc. I guess tuning the runtime can be hairy, and some of the standard lib stuff is weirdly over complicated (nio vs io), but as far as languages go, Java has been incredibly conservative. In fact, a lot of Java app dev would probably be easier in practice if it had more features.