Java is still quite a small language, several-times smaller than C++ or C#. I really don’t feel Java being on that “slippery slope” at all, people like to talk

Java is still quite a small language, several-times smaller than C++ or C#. I really don’t feel Java being on that “slippery slope” at all, people like to talk about. Sure, it can’t really shrink, due to backwards compatibility and for the same reason it can’t always have the most elegant solution, but it really is doing pretty much the opposite of any other language of similar age — being as simple as possible, but not simpler.