coming from java, xtend is probably the best choice right now (also compared to java8) because you are up and running in few hours. really! and the development

coming from java, xtend is probably the best choice right now (also compared to java8) because you are up and running in few hours. really! and the development time will decrease significantly. You can create full projects in a fraction of time. Active annotations are also very useful to generate common boring code (Logging, patterns, ...) also from configuration or HTML files, or to generate files like javascript to call your backend service. the only drawback is that it only works in eclipse. Eclipse has full support, meaning that debugging, refactoring, click from stacktrace and so on are available and work perfectly. just try it for 30 minutes, you'll not come back!