Java was introduced to the open source community over 20 years ago. Since then, we cannot think of a single large IT company or organization that doesn't use Java. For this reason, Java is often regarded as a corporate language, which is not a bad thing per se: Java is the enterprise standard, and it's an extremely mature language with a huge ecosystem of tools and libraries around it and still the most used language by developers in the world.
20 years in the IT industry is, however, a considerable amount of time. Since the beginning, Java has gone through a long list of optimizations with the burden of keeping backward compatibility with earlier releases. Today, however, the IT landscape has significantly ...
