The JVM is an awesome piece of tech - it still boggles my mind that runtime performance can get <2x native C speed for many applications. Java itself less so.

The JVM is an awesome piece of tech - it still boggles my mind that runtime performance can get <2x native C speed for many applications. Java itself less so. It is just far too verbose. I found that I would get completely frustrated coding in an editor without code generation. Using Netbeans to generate most of the boilerplate code was the only way I stayed sane coding in Java. I cannot imagine having to write lots of production Java code in a "normal" editor. If my IDE can figure out what I'm trying to do, so should my programming language.