Java seems to be getting a lot of flak. I would very much prefer to maintain a large Java code base over large JS, Python, Ruby code base hands down. Trust me,

Java seems to be getting a lot of flak. I would very much prefer to maintain a large Java code base over large JS, Python, Ruby code base hands down. Trust me, you don't want to be in a position to maintain a 100KLOC mess of an app written in JS by long goners.