Performance and type safety are absolutely linked. The only major reason JS is still 5-10x slower than Java is looseness of types preventing optimizations.
The Java community is still vibrant and much larger than Go and Rust put together. Modern stuff like RxJava, Lombok, MapStruct, streams, Guava, Gson, Retrofit, DropWizard, Vert.x, etc... Make Java a breeze these days. The learning curve is just steep.
And the Java ecosystem is easily larger than Python. Python may be nearly as popular now, but Java has been in the top three for nearly two decades.
A lot of shops use "vanilla Java" out of ignorance without modern libraries and it's crufty as hell. It's similar to shops still using JQuery hacking vs those that have awakened and use React and Typescript, practically a different language
The Java community is still vibrant and much larger than Go and Rust put together. Modern stuff like RxJava, Lombok, MapStruct, streams, Guava, Gson, Retrofit, DropWizard, Vert.x, etc... Make Java a breeze these days. The learning curve is just steep.
And the Java ecosystem is easily larger than Python. Python may be nearly as popular now, but Java has been in the top three for nearly two decades.
A lot of shops use "vanilla Java" out of ignorance without modern libraries and it's crufty as hell. It's similar to shops still using JQuery hacking vs those that have awakened and use React and Typescript, practically a different language