Lenny started using Java around 1997 as a college student. He got his first Wall Street job right before he turned 18, working with programming languages like C++ and distributor trading systems before becoming a pilot in 2007. Since then he has been an avid Java programming hobbyist.

Why get excited about Java? According to Lenny, he finds Java to be a brilliant technology, far ahead of its time. He loves that Java is no longer a verbose language as it was in the early days, works well on machines, has had no recent security breaches, and no real failures attributed to Java not working. In addition, every six months you get a production quality release.

You can connect with Lenny Primak at Flow Logix, X, LinkedIn, Github, or Mastodon.

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