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Java ecosystem is a quintessence of delegating boring stuff. But without wild westness of NPM, libraries (aka crates) feel more "serious".

• jeroenhd 5y ago
  In my experience the Java world tries to look more serious with all dependencies having fancy corporate names, but the end result is exactly the same. Log4j proved to the world that Java has as much of a dependency tree hell problem as any other programming language. What I find annoying about Java is that very major dependencies are either slow-moving, making upgrading to a new Java version quite a challenge, or require constant rewrites with new releases. I've come to expect that upgrading dependencies usually means "the code works except for these methods being a bit different" but in Java libraries the entire API can change on a whim. The only thing I find "serious" about it is that everyone seems to run ancient versions of Java because their dependencies are impossible to upgrade. It's no wonder that Java 8 seems to be as popular as ever despite the two LTS releases since.