Re:One Year After Switching from Java to Go: Our Experiences
by tombert on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @03:10PM
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I don't do web stuff (and hopefully that can stay that way), so I've managed to avoid a lot of Spring stuff, but I am stuck using Spring Streams for some Kafka stuff I'm doing. I'm not going to lie, I don't love it, but that's mostly because it feels like all I do is write YAML files all day.
Vert.x is a lot of fun, and I've gotten pretty decent performance with its SQL libraries in particular, though I'm not sure I'm a huge fan of the EventBus. I've had better luck with LMAX Disruptor, at least for the data-processey stuff that I do.
But as I said, there's a ton of really great libraries in Java. The language isn't perfect, but Java 21 fixes a lot of my gripes, and it's nice to have a ton of really well-tested libraries to minimize how often you have to reinvent the wheel.
Vert.x is a lot of fun, and I've gotten pretty decent performance with its SQL libraries in particular, though I'm not sure I'm a huge fan of the EventBus. I've had better luck with LMAX Disruptor, at least for the data-processey stuff that I do.
But as I said, there's a ton of really great libraries in Java. The language isn't perfect, but Java 21 fixes a lot of my gripes, and it's nice to have a ton of really well-tested libraries to minimize how often you have to reinvent the wheel.