Java might be one of the few languages for which there isn't an immediately compelling sell. For scripting languages like Python or Ruby you can sell out-of-th

Java might be one of the few languages for which there isn't an immediately compelling sell. For scripting languages like Python or Ruby you can sell out-of-the-box performance and concurrency benefits. For lower-level compiled languages you can sell the ease of cross-platform binary compilation and direct compatibility with C. The only thing I can think of that might be interesting to someone with a monolithic Java codebase is the syntactical simplicity and speed of testing / deploying. But if you have such a codebase that's a major prospect for potentially minimal benefit. Not to mention you have a much larger set of developers to choose from. edit: weirdest downvotes ever