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by sigh400 6335 days ago
I am with the school that the JVM will become primarily a host for other languages and that Java (the language) will move towards legacy status in the next few years.

Clojure, Scala, Groovy, JRuby, JPython etc all are moving in interesting directions and Java is too mired in backwards compatibility and politics to do anything truly interesting.

Java the language is very much closer to legacy then it is to innovation for sure.