A couple of podcasts I have listened to recently have flamed Java. It is a good "kusitolppa", a seriously uncool technology. I'm pleased about not having to write Java anymore. Yet, I'll risk career suicide and take a stance to defend it against some of the low blows. After all, it was my bread and butter for quite many years. I get it; writing Java is not in fashion. It is likely a wrong choice for a modern startup. The language is full of mysterious cargo-cultish traditions, is verbose, has annotations on top of annotations and you have to use an editor which eats half of your memory (the other half is used by the Java process you are working on). Traditional Java and JDKs are ill-fitted for short-running processes like lambdas; it needs time to warm to get up to speed and needs more than one core to work efficiently. It has horrible dependency management tools by today's standards. Running a JVM process requires all kinds of weird flags, its defaults are unlik...
Notes about what I do