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As a software engineer, from experience: yes and no.
The language itself is getting a lot of cool, new, modern features. However, I’ve never had a job where we were using the latest Java version. The most up-to-date JDK I’ve used in work was two major releases back, and most of the time it’s older than that.
I'm normally working in Kotlin when coding because I do Android development. I've had the misfortune of taking up some slack in a greenfield backend project and holy God is it miserable.
Everything is harder to read, every basic data model is 200 lines of getters and setters, multithreading is painful, basic transformers require separate class declarations. And that doesn't even touch on the horrific experience of using Jackson to handle json serialization.
I felt the same way coming back to Java from Kotlin. The more streamlined syntax of Kotlin is so much more comfortable to read and write. That being said, I never had an issue with using Jackson for JSON serialization in Java. I'm curious what issues you have encountered and if you have any alternative suggestions that are nicer to use in Java?
I'm not sure there's much that is better or worse than Jackson. When I worked exclusively in Java I was always using GSON and did not remember having so many hoops to jump through. Could just be my bad memory though.
I just feel like when I'm doing Java work I spend 90% of my time on useless boilerplate.