I agree with you on the memory sink side. For some kinds of applications the combo of startup time and memory consumption make it unsuitable - think of many sma

I agree with you on the memory sink side. For some kinds of applications the combo of startup time and memory consumption make it unsuitable - think of many small services or short-lived functions. Yes, Graal and such are amazing innovations, but they're very incomplete and poorly supported solutions and not something that's a good plan to bank your future on. This has limited our cloud deployment options to a significant degree, and I know I'm not alone. Being a memory hog was not such a big deal in the pre-cloud era, but we pay real money for that (far too much!) these days, and leaner approaches are worth a lot in real monetary terms. I wish push back on some of your other points. Java has evolved quite a lot lately, with improved syntax, much improved runtime (Loom!), better GCs, lots of libraries, etc. The community is a bit stale though, and it's viewed as the Oldsmobile of languages. But that old language still has a skip in it's step!