[bad_user]

> I have a hard time being too impressed because more modern languages are doing this out of the gates

The problem with Java is that it's an already established and very popular platform and it's been so for the past decade at least. When starting from scratch, it's easy to just throw it all away and start fresh, it's easy to fix mistakes that were made in the past.

The irony though is that we still have a hard time learning from history. Just look at Go. Sometimes this industry feels like Groundhog Day, the movie.

Also, no platform or language that I know of has gotten "modules" right, with Java being one of the platforms that has gotten closest to fixing the problem actually (by means of OSGi). To see why modules are still a big problem and why we won't have a fix for the foreseeable future, I invite you to watch this keynote by Rich Hickey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk

[jcadam]

OSGi is a bottomless pit of pain and despair. Never again will I work on any project built on OSGi modules (well, every man has his price, but you know what I mean).

[bad_user]

I agree, OSGi sucks, but it's one of the few attempts at fixing the problem with compatibility breakage in dependencies.