[SkyPuncher]

Java was the language I used in university. While it may be well structured, I hated it as a junior level dev. There’s just so many unnecessary classes and abstractions to accomplish basic stuff.

It makes sense in large applications with experienced developers, but it sucks to learn.

[KptMarchewa]

It was very sparse with any syntactic sugar or ways to shorten common operations. Now it's much better, especially if you eschew the 00s style of programming - with obligatory getters and AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBeans.

[kaba0]

My experience with languages is that people want more exotic languages as they gain experience, than they grow away from them and go back to pragmatic ones. I think Java strikes a great balance here, and while I also had a phase where I thought how much better Scala is for example, I can appreciate java much more nowadays and will default to it for most projects.