Which is why Golang has exploded recently: it gives you static typing security of Java with a coding workflow of an interpreted language.

What I personally find wrong with Java is the extreme verbosity of the language, the verbosity of maven (it's the only build system I've used for Java), the extreme memory consumption for little benefits and generally the Architect Astronaut mentality that is so easily associated with Java.

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