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 changed with the rise of new standards such as the cloud, containers, microservices, and Reactive Programming. Do we still need...
