I refuse to acknowledge it exists for lovecraftian reasons (Java).
The JVM is a pathway to abilities that many would consider… Unnatural. And quite honestly, the language has gotten less terrible over the past several years. The problem is that a good chunk of the software out there in the corpo world is still stuck on Java 8 and can’t migrate to 17/21/etc. without modifications and a fuckton of testing, and companies will drag their feet to avoid that amount of time and effort. But yeah, starting around Java 21 or so, they’re basically backporting random Kotlin features into the main language. But if you’re maintaining legacy JEE apps for something like WebLogic? Good fuckin’ luck. And good fuckin’ luck explaining Spring Boot to boomers.
…I’d still rather be working with Kotlin, though. (Currently trapped in Java 8 hell, and hopefully getting my team’s main codebase up to Java 17 spec in a couple of weeks because a vendor is demanding it.)
The JVM is a pathway to abilities that many would consider… Unnatural. And quite honestly, the language has gotten less terrible over the past several years. The problem is that a good chunk of the software out there in the corpo world is still stuck on Java 8 and can’t migrate to 17/21/etc. without modifications and a fuckton of testing, and companies will drag their feet to avoid that amount of time and effort. But yeah, starting around Java 21 or so, they’re basically backporting random Kotlin features into the main language. But if you’re maintaining legacy JEE apps for something like WebLogic? Good fuckin’ luck. And good fuckin’ luck explaining Spring Boot to boomers.
…I’d still rather be working with Kotlin, though. (Currently trapped in Java 8 hell, and hopefully getting my team’s main codebase up to Java 17 spec in a couple of weeks because a vendor is demanding it.)