> Anecdotally, I think of Java as being a deprecated student language (one reason to avoid Kafka in new stacks), but it is still a solid choice in many use-case

> Anecdotally, I think of Java as being a deprecated student language (one reason to avoid Kafka in new stacks), but it is still a solid choice in many use-cases. Sounds like you might be too smart to work with any team. =3 Honestly from reading this it seems like you’re the one who is too smart to work with any team.