I guess when you talk about a language, you usually also end up talking about the platform, libraries, community and the whole environment. It is hard to escape from this when talking about Java.
For those that are not in the Java land - the whole Java ecosystem is heading in an interesting direction.
Not just the platform (with all the other jvm languages), but the java language itself. Using Java 8 and some of the new features, suddenly standard Java code starts looking more and more modern. Add to this some interesting developments in the framework land, like NIO with Netty, Gradle combined with maven repositories for dependancy management, even new developments in entrenched stuff like Spring or JavaEE...
The community and the ecosystem is slowly evolving outside the whole enterprise monstrosities. It will be interesting to observe the platform in the next couple of years.
For those that are not in the Java land - the whole Java ecosystem is heading in an interesting direction.
Not just the platform (with all the other jvm languages), but the java language itself. Using Java 8 and some of the new features, suddenly standard Java code starts looking more and more modern. Add to this some interesting developments in the framework land, like NIO with Netty, Gradle combined with maven repositories for dependancy management, even new developments in entrenched stuff like Spring or JavaEE...
The community and the ecosystem is slowly evolving outside the whole enterprise monstrosities. It will be interesting to observe the platform in the next couple of years.