I think it's telling when two of the larger Java IDE developers have independently created their own languages to fix problems with Java (kotlin and extend). M

I think it's telling when two of the larger Java IDE developers have independently created their own languages to fix problems with Java (kotlin and extend). My own sense of things since Oracle took over is that Java the language is on the way out, but Java the platform is still strong, and I expect lots of people will be gradually moving across to Scala / Clojure / something else.