I don't think "solid boring", or even old, is necessarily bad for recruiting. Typescript and Golang for example, are relatively new-ish but still solid and bor

I don't think "solid boring", or even old, is necessarily bad for recruiting. Typescript and Golang for example, are relatively new-ish but still solid and boring, and have significantly much less gotchas than older established tech like, say, Rails. I don't do Java, but I see it getting a bit of a renaissance. Either because of new features or because people are moving to Kotlin (yep for backends), which is a different language but still has the "solid boring" feel to it. It is tough to hire for devops, though. The currently experienced people want to work with more complex infrastructure. Maybe we need a few more years to see those people getting burned and deciding they don't want to life an exciting work-life anymore.