it wasn’t java per say (as i said they had a set of strict rules as to what framework i was allowed to use , aka spring only), but the general culture around it, of « safe and proven, enterprise grade stack ». Had to use ext.js for the web interface for example.

Yet, even with this stack, 50% of the spent time was due to internal process. As an example : we called them once to ask for some news, and they told us about doing a kickstart meeting. At this point we already had finished developping everything and wanted to talk about deployment (little did we know we would have to redevelop part of the stack because of guidelines we hadn’t been told about before).

I honestly believe given the same set of requirements, constraints, and people skilled with their respective stacks, the language and framework wouldn’t make that much of a difference.

Out of the four modern languages/frameworks that I’m fluent in: C++/TreeFrog (played around with it just because I am a masochist), C#/ASP, Python/Django and JS/Express, I really don’t see any difference in my productivity in any of them.