I have seen too much come and go. I've mostly settled into Java on the back end and react front end. They have been around for a long time, and will continue to

I have seen too much come and go. I've mostly settled into Java on the back end and react front end. They have been around for a long time, and will continue to be. You can take a project many years old and easily modernize it. I think all of us in the industry for a while have worked on "dead end" projects where many things were just unfixable because core libraries, languages, and frameworks are simply obsolete. These are, by far, the worst projects to work on. Java is the perfect counter example. It's kinda verbose and has some annoying shortcomings, but all the tooling is top notch. It's one of the fastest languages out there and has the best debugging/build/monitoring/IDE tools of any language I've used. And it's rock solid stable, we have plenty of servers that run some hacky old stuff for years straight without a restart. And the best part about Java is that I can find a library to do anything. I have never once ran into a technical roadblock in Java because I needed something unusual. Most of these attributes are lacking in new languages. Rust has crappy IDE tools and debuggability, no good ORM, not many supported target architectures, no run time code generation. Golang has terrible package management, no generics, and a basic garbage collector that's fast except when it isn't. Node/JS threading support is a joke, the standard library is so small that most projects pull in over 100 megabytes of dependencies, and it's still a slow memory hog compared to Java/Go/Rust/C#. Java doesn't have anything "terrible" about it compared to the glaring shortcomings in these newer languages. There's just been enough decades of use that everything has been smoothed over until it's at least decent. I bounced between Perl, PHP, C# in my early days and I'm sticking with Java now. It's the easiest to work with. I'll pick up a new language when it's as good as Java, so maybe Go or Rust in another 5 years