As a Java developer by day (server side, not client side applications), I would love to join in or counter your complaints, but they are too abstract for me to understand what it is that you're complaining about. My main problem with Java is its future in Oracle's hands. Another problem would be the slow pace of language improvements. That problem is somewhat minimized by groovy in the short term. In the long term, as always, I'm exploring other languages. Are there languages that address the problems you have with java, but that also fill the same niche of large-team development? More precisely, languages that inhibit a team members ability to do something "clever"/unexpected and allows them to focus on the business requirements? I've always enjoyed python for that reason; "there should be one, and preferably only one, obvious way to do it". However, I don't really like python's lack of static typing for non-trivial, multi-developer, projects. Not exactly an insurmountable problem, I know, just a personal preference.<div>
-Steve Brown</div>