[marxama]

I've worked a lot with both C# and Java, and C# is so superior I never want to touch Java again. Especially since around C# 3.5, the distance between Java and C# has grown enormous. The two benefits I can see with Java is that it's a smaller language (easier to train junior engineers), and yes, the huge amounts of libraries.

Kotlin/Scala/Clojure are nice, but my experience is that just because an organization is working with Java, you shouldn't count on being able to work with some other JVM language. At my current job, we've been forced to give up on Clojure (a language I love) because the higher-ups have decided we should stick to Java.

I really hope especially Kotlin will gain more traction in the coming years, but in the meanwhile there is at least an order of magnitude more jobs in C# (where I live).

[jgalentine007]

I hate dealing with checked exceptions in java.