That's good to know, and I promise I wasn't (just) being snarky! The problem is that unless you're working with something low-level like C, by the time it's stable and field tested, the language has also gotten kind of brittle, there's a mountain of bad code, and new features don't undo the damage done by the bad patterns of the past.

Javascript also has mountains of bad code and bad practices, but a lot of it's being accumulated in frameworks which are getting created, tested, found wanting, then dropped, with the good parts surviving on, either in new frameworks or as part of the standard.

I won't lie though, I'm as framework exhausted as everyone else right now and it can't go on like this for much longer. Using something like C# (which I see as "good Java") would be a nice change of pace. Definitely check out Ampersand and Webpack with React, they're kind of coalescing to provide a saner, "use only what you need" approach.