Java has a reputation for being difficult to work with. But I’ve come to like it for business apps. The IDE support (eg intelliJ) is insanely good. However the build system is terrible and there seems to be a lot of magic compared to the simplicity of eg Golang.
For personal projects I continue to prefer golang. For enterprise apps, I think Java still has a lot of potential.
I agree -- I end up choosing things that larger enterprises wouldn't pick because most of my projects are specs of dust in comparison.
What do you think about the angle of Go having a lot of potential (I honestly think it might replace java for large enterprises in 10-20 years?) because it's built for developer fungibility?
If there's one things enterprises want to do, it's reduce the cost of employing resources, and employees are one resource that gets a lot cheaper when codebases are easier to pop in and out of, and you don't need a Java Spring MVC expert, but rather a golang dev fresh out of a coding bootcamp (or whatever actually good shorter-term switch-to-tech education trends come out in the future).
Well, we're talking in a thread about Quarkus, which uses the Java CDI annotations (specifically jax rs) so no need for enterprises to really deal with that complexity : ).
Golang is used by a lot of startups, it lets you move insanely fast. Larger enterprise don't care as much about speed, but care more (allegedly!) about maintenance so as long as there are a ton of Java devs and consulting firms around, I don't see these enterprises switching over anytime soon. With the coming of Generics in v2, I think the language might start to gain a lot more adoption than it has today.
For personal projects I continue to prefer golang. For enterprise apps, I think Java still has a lot of potential.