(1) without any reasons doesn't seem particularly meaningful. There are plenty of "agile" options on the JVM. (2) I find the exact opposite; companies that use

(1) without any reasons doesn't seem particularly meaningful. There are plenty of "agile" options on the JVM. (2) I find the exact opposite; companies that use Java are very often huge contributors to the Java OSS ecosystem. And the Java community is giant because it's all over the place. (3) Maybe you're not familiar with Spring, the canonical example of a huge ecosystem with tens of thousands of users, a very active development community, etc. On point (3) I'd agree that the most agile environments have a smaller number of active contributors precisely because goliaths like Spring have so much mindshare. At the same time, I don't consider that a huge drawback, either: the people involved in the better, leaner frameworks are, in general, hugely smart.