Reading your message brought flashbacks of 2006, when C and C++ programmers were politely but passionately explaining to Java programmers why the Java ecosystem

Reading your message brought flashbacks of 2006, when C and C++ programmers were politely but passionately explaining to Java programmers why the Java ecosystem was a hopeless pile of bloat. I would have thought that in 2022 the failure of Java to conquer any kind of market on the most popular platforms and 2nd most popular or any kind of popular plus the rise of languages like Swift, Go or Rust would have made that point perfectly if not painfully clear. Even in Android, Java’s big success story, both the VM and the language were either outright replaced or made legacy. I suppose it’s a matter of perspective, but I like to think of the server not as Java’s last kingdom, but more as Java’s last refuge before being finally banished. Note that I don’t dislike Java. I’ve used it successfully on Android and it helped us achieve our goals of writing a passably performant application. Neither do I think it’s a bad technology, like many would argue. It is very uninspiring and bureaucratic though…