Re:All New Java Language Features Since Java 21
by tombert on Saturday September 06, 2025 @12:33PM
(#45150706)
It’s amazing that Java has access to really great, high performing web toolkits like Vert.x and even Play, and yet the entire enterprise Java world has converged on Jakarta and Spring. I don’t like Spring but in my mind there is a special place in hell for Jakarta/JavaEE.
IntelliJ IDEA is genuinely great. It helps that they were the ones who developed Kotlin, and a fair bit of the actual language changes were gacked from Kotlin. (Or you could say "prototyped and shown valuable in Kotlin".)
They are still hampered by lousy nullable support.
You didn't ask, but Spring still sucks. It's not part of the language but it's a ubiquitous framework.