Boot

I’m a fan of Java. If you haven’t given it a chance in a while, you may not have noticed that, Java has quietly been adopting some of the best practices that make dynamic and functional languages so appealing, without sacrificing the many hundred person-years of effort that have made Java and the JVM a world-class development environment. Java is still one the world’s most popular programming languages with roughly 9 million programmers using Java. It doesn’t make sense to ignore all of that history and development effort because of a niggling feeling that Java is a little too verbose, or that XML is so last year. ...