So what you're saying is that the tooling for Java is more advanced than the tooling for other languages. I'm not sure I see this as a negative. I did node dev

So what you're saying is that the tooling for Java is more advanced than the tooling for other languages. I'm not sure I see this as a negative. I did node dev for a while, it was horrible, no tools that were any good, got a memory leak? Have fun! Had a memory leak happen in Java once, had the proper tools already, didn't have to interrupt a live server or anything, plus the tools were easy to use and well documented. Really the problem is that when you program in Java, you need to restrain yourself. You could create another level of abstraction, or you could just solve the problem at hand and abstract it later when you find a concrete case for it. And guess what, when you get there, you've got excellent tools for it.