Consider Scala rather than Java. After a decade of enterprise Java development I decided to pivot to Scala after seeing the side-by-side code examples in the P

Consider Scala rather than Java. After a decade of enterprise Java development I decided to pivot to Scala after seeing the side-by-side code examples in the Play Framework documentation. Scala code is much more succinct and expressive than Java. The gap has narrowed in recent years, but all the new features of Java have been there for years in Scala, and with neater syntax in Scala. Many Java design patterns are built into the Scala language itself, and the type system is phenomenally powerful. It’s a language where I am constantly learning, even ten years in. It’s wonderful.