Interesting perspective. Some of it I agree with, but not all of it. > There are no easy ways to build abstractions so it's all annotation upon annotation or b

Interesting perspective. Some of it I agree with, but not all of it. > There are no easy ways to build abstractions so it's all annotation upon annotation or back to design patterns of composition / inheritance. What are your top 3 abstractions that are hard or impossible in Java? > Do not even get me started with Gradle/Maven where declaring a custom task is a mini project. Agree on Maven, but the criticism I most often hear for Gradle is that it actually makes it too easy to define custom tasks (mainly from people who like the standardization provided by the stricter Maven guardrails). > [...] anything can be null, no easy way for structured concurrency and everything is mutable. Top that with verbosity [...] Maybe check back in a couple of years, many of these are in the process of being addressed!