In principle there's nothing wrong with Java but every Java shop I've worked at has made me sad. Lots of dynamic stuff glued together by plugins, DI, crazy con

In principle there's nothing wrong with Java but every Java shop I've worked at has made me sad. Lots of dynamic stuff glued together by plugins, DI, crazy configs, weird XML meta languages, runtime NPEs, stuff falling over at all hours, everyone on-call, etc... Python shops weren't much better. Enormous products of complexity, plugin frameworks to config other plugins... Go is not without its problems but at least it reins in much of the dynamic complexity (although systems like K8S built above it seem to add it back). For a lot of things it's better than Java or Python. I haven't yet worked at a Rust shop but I've used it on a few small things of my own and it seems to strike a good balance and Rust/Wasm looks really promising. So if I have the choice I'll go with a Rust startup, a Go startup, a Python/Java startup in that order.