I don't think Java is beautiful, and would give it an average rating on being clean, but having worked on projects with both small & large teams in multiple lan

I don't think Java is beautiful, and would give it an average rating on being clean, but having worked on projects with both small & large teams in multiple languages, I think its one of the best languages for large teams. Its also much easier to assimilate new team members in a large Java project compared to other languages[1], primarily because of static typing and inferencing capabilities that modern IDEs provide. I suspect this is why Google uses it extensively. For my personal tinkering, I prefer Ruby and love its meta-programming. But I wouldn't use it for a project if the team size is going to exceed 10. Writing Ruby like you write Java will work but doesn't count since the advantages of Ruby are wasted. [1] Try diving into the source code for Rails/Django compared to a large, well-written Java project (the only ones I can think of right now are Google-internal, sorry)