[srijanshetty]

Almost everyone is on Java 8 now, and people are warming up to the new release cadence of bi-yearly releases of Java.

Even with Java 8, you get streams, lambdas and powerful Collection classes.

Personally, I've worked on sizable projects involving Java and have been amazed by it's performance and versatality. It's a construct that might go out of fashion for a while but will remain the backbone of most companies out there. My personal take is that Java is evoling at a rapid pace and this will only do good to the language.