[brabel]

Saying that the new Java features are half baked, to me, shows you're just feeling hurt because people prefer Java over your favourite language.

Java may not be the pinnacle of programming languages, but since Java 8, pretty much every feature it's added has been absolutely excellently done.

[dionian]

i mean, it follows the java philosophy (preseving backward compat). theyve done great work improving java. but i see no reason to use it over scala where i get better features, its more like a java 2.0

[surgical_fire]

Then don't. You can use Scala to your heart's content. No one is stopping you.

I had to work on a Scala codebase at some point, and I thought it horrible. I judge a language on how easy it allows you to create an unreadable mess. Scala makes it incredibly easy. And the people that enjoy Scala seem to like "unreadable messiness" as a feature.

I found it fun to learn the basics, and it was interesting to think of problems from a FP approach, but it is never something I would use in the real world.

I vastly prefer Java. The features it imported from Scala were fine, made the language better. It doesn't need to import everything.

[morshu9001]

Usually someone is stopping you, unless this is a hobby project. At least Scala can use Java libs so you aren't stopped by stuff not being available for it. But yeah I would never use it.