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Fabian Holzer

Disclaimer: I am a card-carrying member of the Boring Technology Club and my pitch might sound a bit like "nobody gets fired for buying IBM", but Java is a total work-horse.

It is not pretty. It is not best in class. But it is solid and has you covered. But you can draw from a vast pool of resources, have plenty of software engineers with experience to hire, there is an abundance of libraries. Its ecosystem is mature. All the stuff that makes you productive is in place.

I build software for hospitals for a living. I like to sleep well. I use Java.