Style to Critics
Style
Why don’t more people use comma-first style?
I sometimes write comma-first, but not when other programmers will be involved. It’s easier to see some types of mistakes in comma-first code, but I don’t think the improvement is worth the inevitable bikeshed arguments.
Interpolation
Why do people prefer curly-brace string interpolation to the + operator? Measured by number of characters, "foo"+bar is shorter than "foo{bar}".
Critics
Back when, criticizing the Java language was a popular sport: people would say things like, “The Java ecosystem is great, the only bad thing about it is the Java language,” so lots of languages sprouted to target the Jvm. I haven’t seen new Jvm languages in some time (albeit I haven’t been using Java much recently); has the pace of new language development slowed?