@elmiko @anticdent @jmtd

Ahaha, I definitely didn't want to be the only thing preventing Java from being declared completely unjustifiable! I'm not a massive Java user nowadays, but I use it quite regularly.

I guess that within "boring technologies" it has one of largest ecosystems, very good performance and it's quite robust.

By "boring technology" I mean something that has well-understood failure modes, so I don't have think a lot about the tool itself and just focus on the end result.

@elmiko @ruivieira @jmtd To be slightly more serious than the rest of the thread my main concern/issue is that without additional tooling/hacks Java is not especially resource conscientious in containerized environments. With something like go you compile static and throw it on scratch: small and fast and done.