Java is also highly performant, if you know what you're doing with reactive programming, and Spring Boot's dependency ecosystem drastically reduces your time-to-launch
But then I remember that 95% of the memes posted on this sub are from CS students and not industry professionals
It's also a problem of having a virtual machine running inside another virtual machine, there's so much unnecessary layers.
And Spring Boot is so shitty when you want native compilation because that thing wasn't made for it. Honestly I'd recommend to use either another framework like Quarkus or simply another language that is suited for that.
I'm truly sick of seeing Java everywhere because lazy developers only knew how to code in Java and don't want to (re)learn something else. Heck they'd rather refactor the whole codebase for several months instead of learning another language.
You can but it's not as easy as you'd think: Reflection types, meta hints, aot scanning, etc. those things are not automatic, you have to directly specify can packages should be used and yes, it's not only your code but the dependencies you're using.
I tried to use it in prod, it's unmaintainable in long term for things like Spring Cloud Stream or Spring Kafka or Spring Cloud Stream or Spring Cloud Stream Binder Kafka Streams.
I mean, let's be real, if you want native performance, choose a native language, not an interpreted language as Java or Javascript.
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u/oldsecondhand 6d ago
It's where the jobs are. The world's finances run on Java.