Ah, got you.

> I haven't kept aware of changes to Java in the last decade, but the things I didn't like about it then were:

It's almost a shame. I am genuinely impressed with the gains the team has made in both, language aspects as well as JVM technology. They have some brilliant people working on it and I love to hear their talks (Brian Goetz and Mark Reinhold, mostly).

But I suppose I would say the same about .Net, it's just that you guys have much less public exposure of your internal reasoning.