Java but in an alternate universe (with Microsoft’s trademarked curse^tm that follows everywhere). Auto-properties/properties to reduce boilerplate, extension methods, simplified exceptions (I don’t care about being explicit about checked/unchecked exceptions, I just want to throw em and catch em whenever I feel like it! Then again, other languages don’t want you to care about any of that either), Linq and access to the wonderful world of the GAME DEV ecosystem (Unity, Godot). Anything other than that is just splitting hairs at this point.

it’s pretty hard to paint a general picture of lemmy when, more often than not, one instance is drastically different from the other.

I tried DeepSeek, and immediately fell in love… My only nitpick is that images have to have text on them, otherwise it complains, but for the price of free, I’m basically just asking for too much. Contemporaries be damned.