>When I want to try a new Java feature and think about writing the scaffolding code, my stomach actually hurts.

Like, if you're out of work for a couple of months and the only way to feed your kids is to take a Java job, I don't think you'd pass it up. I wouldn't pass it up either even though I don't like Java. The whole language feels like it's designed to meet some minimum lines of code requirement.

If you're working on a team, strongly typed languages like Java and C sharp are a must. Otherwise it can get extremely hard to figure out what exactly other people are doing.