Interesting that the choice was vs other JVM languages, and vs Scala specifically. The starting point to align tech choices with "realities of the hiring market

Interesting that the choice was vs other JVM languages, and vs Scala specifically. The starting point to align tech choices with "realities of the hiring market" does make Java come out as the obvious choice then. But of course lots of companies hire developers for learning ability and the expecatation that they pick up the used language on the job, which also selects for other desireable qualities... no right or wrong answers here of course.