I was going to say, Java is fine, it's the architectures and mountains of code spread across loosely coupled architectures that does it for me. I wouldn't mind a modern day Java project, as long as it's free of the 20+ year old dogmatic practices. I'd have to unlearn a lot of those myself, probably.
Well yeah...? That's a big part of why I mostly use Java, so I don't have to constantly figure out basic stuff in whatever language/framework that's hot this week. The language is just a tool. It's not an ends in itself.
I can spend that time building things instead. If I have an idea I can implement it. Downstream dependencies are rock solid, and the language changes at a manageable pace.
Like I did some stuff in python the other week, and every other line I wrote had to stop several minutes and figure out basic syntax stuff. Just a pain in the ass. Like I probably could take the time and freshen up on python and be up to speed in a few weeks, but that's a few weeks I'm not moving toward my goals.
