That's a dismissive attitude. I think the love shown to C# is example enough that there may be more to the results than hipster-ism. C# is great, and the vast m

That's a dismissive attitude. I think the love shown to C# is example enough that there may be more to the results than hipster-ism. C# is great, and the vast majority of Java programmers are aware of that. I mean, holy shit - no lambadas? Lack of reified types? The Java ecosystem is amazing (build tools, libraries, the JVM, IDE's), but the language itself is depressingly stagnant and unpleasant to work with in comparison to similarly-placed languages.