Because you have a team of Java developers, or most of the tooling you are gonna use is around Java (eg: data streaming). My team had to write some flink, lucki

Because you have a team of Java developers, or most of the tooling you are gonna use is around Java (eg: data streaming). My team had to write some flink, luckily in python you can do some now. Modern versions are not as bad (to me) you can use val for type inferring. If irc they are implementing stuff similar to scala. It's used quite a lot in enterprise as well. Note: by no means I'm a Java dev, I learnt to hate it a little less.