> It is cross-platform as a big selling point but then people use it to write monolithic server applications where cross-platform capability isn't useful.
Being able to locally develop/debug on Windows/Mac and deploy to Linux servers is very useful. And changes like the Apple Silicon transition only required dropping in a new ARM JDK instead of updating hundreds of tools and libraries.
Being able to locally develop/debug on Windows/Mac and deploy to Linux servers is very useful. And changes like the Apple Silicon transition only required dropping in a new ARM JDK instead of updating hundreds of tools and libraries.