[majjgepolja]

Modern java is pretty nice though. I tried MLs and Haskells but was put off by not-so-mature tooling. (I know some of you do very well with it but I am used to some hand holding). With an IDE like intelliJ, modern java is pretty good. When I use python even with a linter/LSP many errors go undetected, whereas Java is much strict about this. (IIRC Java 9+ has local variable type inference, streams and lambdas were introduced in Java 8. It's not perfect but much expressive than old java.

[Zababa]

Modern Java is getting really close to MLs, with records, pattern matching, sealed classes, lambdas, type inference, streams, optionals. I don't know if the ecosystem has adopted that way of developing though.

[gorjusborg]

When project loom finishes, the JVM should have lightweight threads, tail call elimination and continuations, too.