Have you used Java recently? The last few versions are showing consistent improvement with lambas, date library etc. I can't think of this happening successfull

Have you used Java recently? The last few versions are showing consistent improvement with lambas, date library etc. I can't think of this happening successfully in other languages but it seems to be working well in Java. Also JavaEE and Spring framework have improved massively and the amount of code (and configuration) to do stuff is reducing all the time - much more in the style of rails/django. I think Java (and C#) will be here for a long while where the enterprise jobs are. Javascript will continue to be popular as long as it's the only real choice in the browser. After that - who knows?