Over the years I've found Java to be too chatty and a pain in the ass to use directly. I mainly use Groovy now which also runs on the JVM. Just yesterday I wr

Over the years I've found Java to be too chatty and a pain in the ass to use directly. I mainly use Groovy now which also runs on the JVM. Just yesterday I wrote some extensions for Solr, you can do it in Groovy (hell even Javascript). There's very little point in writing things in pure Java these days. Especially if you're just using Java libraries and gluing pieces together, use some scripting language that compiles to bytecode. Here's one cool thing about Java: The documentation is probably the best of any development ecosystem out there. APIs are wonderfully documented. For an extreme dose of hilarity, compare Javadocs to Nodejs documentation.