The total number of professional Java developers in the world is estimated at 9-10 million. So if you're a large corp that has a lot of positions to fill you ar

The total number of professional Java developers in the world is estimated at 9-10 million. So if you're a large corp that has a lot of positions to fill you are going to be tempted to hire for Java devs. But unless you're offering a truly amazing opportunity (like a real-time trading app, which a mediocre dev wouldn't be allowed to touch), you are just going to get bombarded with mediocre resumes, and the most competent Java Dev you can hire on your budget is going to build boring CRUD software slowly, with lots of boilerplate and null checks, and overuse of GoF patterns and XML frameworks, because that is just how the Java ecosystem works. Cranking out RoR apps is nothing special either, and there are plenty of barely-competent Rails devs on the market, but at least Rails actually makes simple CRUD apps simple to build. Why pay someone to fuck around with configuring Hibernate all day when they can get the same job done in a few minutes with ActiveRecord? It only makes sense if you're a megacorp that has a budget for salary but no meaningful way to measure productivity. Yes, there are good devs and bad devs in any language community, and no developer is successful or fails just because of their language preference. But Java has its reputation as a bureaucracy-oriented programming language for good reason.