A good article, but I think the last line is the most revealing...
"compared to C# and Scala, it (Java) is almost painful to use..."
I think most of the Java community realizes incremental improvements to Java are at the point of severely diminishing returns, and Scala seems to be the next phase (I've heard people jokingly refer to Scala as Java 1.9... of course, this really isn't accurate, but it does capture what's going on in the Java world right now).
So in the future, I'm going to be a lot more interested in hearing how Ruby and especally Scala stack up vs C#...
"compared to C# and Scala, it (Java) is almost painful to use..."
I think most of the Java community realizes incremental improvements to Java are at the point of severely diminishing returns, and Scala seems to be the next phase (I've heard people jokingly refer to Scala as Java 1.9... of course, this really isn't accurate, but it does capture what's going on in the Java world right now).
So in the future, I'm going to be a lot more interested in hearing how Ruby and especally Scala stack up vs C#...