You're trying to make the point that the only companies using Java are doing so because of legacy. That is demonstrably untrue. Netflix and Google have had ampl

You're trying to make the point that the only companies using Java are doing so because of legacy. That is demonstrably untrue. Netflix and Google have had ample time and capacity to replace Java, yet they didn't. As any good engineer, people working at those companies recognize that Java, Golang, Rust etc. are all tools and these tools have their place in different scenarios. I used to be like you, but my personal "anti-language" was PHP. I would talk down on organizations using PHP and I would take them less seriously as engineers. But I have come to see that they too are using a language (PHP in this case) as a tool to build a business. And it serves those orgs well apparently. Don't get me wrong, Java would not be my first choice in many cases. At the company I'm working for, we only use Golang and Python in the backend and Typescript in the frontend. That doesn't mean that I cannot recognize the value the Java can bring and the niche it occupies. I'm actually pretty amazed by how far Java has come as a language. 10 years ago, I thought Java was going to be replaced by the likes of Kotlin or even Scala. But Java has pretty much caught up in terms of features and ergonomics compared to the Kotlin and occupies a comfortable spot now as being an expressive and productive language without bringing the learning curve and footguns of Scala.