I think there are lots of valid barbs to throw the way of Java and the JVM ecosystem, but I'm slightly baffled that you'd choose tooling and maintainability. I'

I think there are lots of valid barbs to throw the way of Java and the JVM ecosystem, but I'm slightly baffled that you'd choose tooling and maintainability. I've had a very happy, quiet 15 years or so on top of Maven and it's never ruined my day. In the meantime, the situation with Python and Ruby has been so thoroughly and reliably awful that basically the entire industry had to move to Docker to be able to get anything done.