The opportunity cost of learning Java (or any programming language/paradigm for that matter) is very low compared to cost of failure (in the instance i've quote

The opportunity cost of learning Java (or any programming language/paradigm for that matter) is very low compared to cost of failure (in the instance i've quoted). Your thoughts on what's good in Java is well put. I don't know if generics/annotations made the language uglier but I can definitely vouch that it has made my life a lot more easier to write programs faster. Has it made my programs faster? - maybe or maybe not :)