@grishka @cathal the sunk cost fallacy is basically "we've been doing this for so long, and put so much effort/money into it, that we might as well keep doing it."
My favorite language is Perl, so I'm in no position to judge someone's code decisions too harshly.
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I'd say this was very true until java 8, but since then they really have been pushing to evolve it into a modern language. It is still pretty conservative though, but I think that is ok. Its niche is to be the stable reference language for the JVM, and other languages like kotlin, Scala and closure fill the need for more modern or less OOP languages.
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