Personally I find it much much MUCH easier to bootstrap a project with Python, Go or even JavaScript than Java, especially when third-party libraries are involv

Personally I find it much much MUCH easier to bootstrap a project with Python, Go or even JavaScript than Java, especially when third-party libraries are involved. (I hate dealing with Maven or Gradle.) Kotlin and Scala are different from what I understand. Also, from what I can gather, most developers entering the industry come with JavaScript and Python experience. So there's that to consider.