[jayd16]

I find it to be the opposite. In recent years C# has had modest language changes while Java has introduced streams, optionals, lambdas, function pointers...a whole lot of catch up and IMO arguably in an uglier but ultimately quite similar way to C#. Now I get to relive another couple years of devs learning, unlearned, and then properly learning when to use Linq/streams.

Optionals and the new IO libraries are causing far more churn in my Java code and the libs I use than any recent C# changes.

The Java language doesn't feel conservative to me. It just feels slow. What was worth the wait? What does Java do better than C#? The only thing I miss while in C# is Java's take on enums.

All that said, I don't begrudge Java as a whole. The JVM and other priorities add a lot of value and I'm glad their adherence to bytecode compatibility remains strong. The language is the trade off but that doesn't mean I need to pretend its better.