Discussion on: Pitch me on Java

[Anton Kuranov]

Pros

• Type-safe: design and modelling, compile-time errors, IDE support, etc
• Huge ecosystem: frameworks, tools, libraries, documentation, support, etc...
• Reliable: developed and supported by industry-leading companies
• Fast and stable on different workloads
• Still in top of jobs vacancies
• Medium entrance level => (mostly) experienced engeneers in your team

Cons

• Oriented mostly to backend development, almost is not presented on frontends
• Not so modern and contains a lot of legacy stuff, however the language is still now in active development of new features
• Verbose: standard design patterns require a lot of boilerplate code
• Memory consumption (there comes some optimizations like project valhalla)
• Slow startup and "heating" time (may be critical). May be solved withcompilation to native code.