Sorry for the late reply. Not sure which you wanted details on:
- java issues / sun not caring - there are examples above by SeanLuke, gojomo and myself
- java.lang.Object depends on hundreds of classes - violates basic design principles of modularity and avoiding cyclic dependencies
- "Sun sat on it's laurels..." - apart from ignoring existing issues, they also ignored requests for language enhancements (e.g. dynamic language support, covariance, etc) for a long time causing many developers to give up on java for web development and move to python & ruby
- java issues / sun not caring - there are examples above by SeanLuke, gojomo and myself
- java.lang.Object depends on hundreds of classes - violates basic design principles of modularity and avoiding cyclic dependencies
- "Sun sat on it's laurels..." - apart from ignoring existing issues, they also ignored requests for language enhancements (e.g. dynamic language support, covariance, etc) for a long time causing many developers to give up on java for web development and move to python & ruby