One thing that is not mentioned is security. There are java libraries for almost everything. And when something is implemented in Java it is much harder to expl

One thing that is not mentioned is security. There are java libraries for almost everything. And when something is implemented in Java it is much harder to exploit. Python and node are both great but mostly just wrap C libraries, so If openssl or your database driver has a bug your fancy interpreted/sandboxed language does not help. Java has existed a long time and developers have had time to reimplement many popular protocols and libraries. This can sometimes cause few % points of performance, but you get stability and the excellent monitoring&debugging. For example, if I need to accept images from the internet I would use Java since there are pure java image libraries that cannot be exploited with unexpected data. At most it fails and everything is cleaned up.