well it shouldn't be a rant. for my company java would've been fast enough. however we invested heavily in dotnet core, since it's easier to scale people in our region with dotnet.

we are basically struggeling to find people in the java domain, the amount of people with c# knowledge in my area is so much bigger.

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however I'm personally a heavy java user (or scala should I say) unfortunatly the more things I did in c# the more I missed stuff especially in plain java. I thing the oracle takeover of java held the language back a bit for a few years. I mean if I look at the releases, they started to catch up with their new model, etc. which is good.

and I think what java these days are missing is a project like django/ror or aspnet.core which drives the web forward with a fully integrated web framework that does not suck. don't get me wrong spring looks promising, but it tries to fullfil every role by being "flexible" which it probably shouldn't be. enforce something. give us a nice little ORM that is not enterprise, look at linq. and especially don't be so enterprisy.