[dasil003]

Wow, what a chip on this guy's shoulder. If you're a single-language Java (or Cobol) programmer don't worry, your career is safe. But don't write rants telling other programmers what they should care about. There is absolutely zero chance I am going to give a shit about antiquated IT and business processes not being updated. Management has their reasons, and I have no interest in fighting to convince them otherwise. Rather I will work at a company that is doing interesting things with tools that I like.

I don't dislike Java out of popularity, I just don't find it to be a pleasant or expressive language. I like to code in vim without an IDE, so a lot of verbosity and boilerplate is painful. If I want static typing, I prefer a much more expressive and powerful language like Haskell, because frankly I just don't see what the point of static typing is if I'm going to get null pointer exceptions all over the place.