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Sensationalist headline, it should be "I want new features and don't care about backward compatibility". :)

Yeah, and some clever formatting to make Java look verbose. E.g., the string example comparison is really this (and not 5 lines vs. 1 line):

log.error("The object of type ["+foo.getClass().getName()+"] and identifier ["+foo.getId()+"] does not exist.", cause);
vs.
log.error("The object of type [${foo.class.name}] and identifier [${foo.id}] does not exist.", cause);

Why don't we all just create our own languages with the features that we want?
And I think the problem about Exceptions in Java is not the language's fault it's the user's(developer) fault if not used correctly.

Half of it is done, Sun is gone. Let others carry the torch and make the api smaller. Also there is Scala, if they fix applet deployment issues.

It would be awesome to have these features, but no reason to drop java altogether. http://groups.google.com/group/unladen-swallow/browse_thread/thread/4edbc406f544643e , heres a thread on python, and java/c++ from google.