[jjav]

> The language itself is quite beautiful when used properly and with modern features.

> It just really needs a makeover and better tools.

I love java, wouldn't call it beautiful though. But I don't need a language to be beautiful, I need it to be pragmatic, blisteringly fast, have an extensive ecosystem and top quality tooling. Java delivers #1 on all of those so I love it.

For beauty, I like ruby and lisp, but those both fail on all the other criteria so they are mostly for hobby use for me. (Python, the darling of everyone these days, is pretty much dead last on every criteria except popularity.)

> better tools

I'd say Java & JVM has pretty much the best tooling on all fronts.

I can't think of anything that has better tooling around the language and runtime.