Java as a language not bad, but it's not good either. It's solidly mediocre. IMO the best thing about Java is the interfaces and libraries. When you want to re

Java as a language not bad, but it's not good either. It's solidly mediocre. IMO the best thing about Java is the interfaces and libraries. When you want to reuse some else's code, just looking at the public methods and their type signatures makes it basically self-explanatory. This is what I miss most when I'm working with dynamic languages like JS, Ruby and Python.