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Java and its ecosystem is great. It helps our teams easily solve business problems. And at the end of the day, what matters is business needs, I'm really tired of all these purists trashing a great framework.

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I've always said that Java is the best for solving organizational problems moreso than programming problems. In fact, I think the feature that catapulted it to the forefront was probably javadoc. The reality is that there is very little difference in the effectiveness of different program languages unless you're deep into niche problem domains. Java is a perfectly good general-purpose language with a powerful toolchain.

A) Java isn’t a framework.

B) Not liking Java doesn’t make someone a purist.

C) You can solve business problems in other languages besides Java. It’s a common misconception amongst Java programmers, I know.

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