the support tooling for java is fantastic. Profilers, APM tools that can trace webapps, visual debuggers and so on. Most of the tooling just works. We have

the support tooling for java is fantastic. Profilers, APM tools that can trace webapps, visual debuggers and so on. Most of the tooling just works. We have part of our application written in another language/framework and while developing in it is fun and easy, it is a nightmare to debug and maintain in production. People complain about the verbosity of java, but that makes it great for projects where lots of people are working on it over the years. It is fairly easy to see what is going on. (spring complicates things a bit). Contrast this with say, clojure, where sometimes I have to spend an hour trying to figure out what a blob of code I wrote last year does.