Comment by another_twist

I dont think the Spring ecosystem is bad. In fact, its one of the more stable frameworks. Even spring AI which is built for AI agents a new use-case is very intuitive if you take time to learn its abstractions. Usually doesnt take more than a day of reading docs and writing some try-out code. The thing I really like about Java is the stability of its packaging ecosystem. Maven is XML (yuck) but is okay with the IDE integrations. Gradle has advanced features often missing in Python / Go such as build caching. The OOP stuff is also good because it scales with very large code bases. In, fact frontend esp React adopted a functional style which leads to complexities associated with hooks. A mixed approach is usually better. Overall, the only bad thing are the multiple unnecessary abstraction layers which are a pain in any language. Rest of Java is quite good.