The downside is that also means a lot of the core APIs are a huge pain in the ass to work with, especially relative to something like Python, and the “solution” to this problem ends up being something like Spring which has to use so much reflection and metaprogramming to accomplish what it does that it also relies heavily on exceptions for control flow. So without even getting into the other issues, debugging becomes a lot more complicated than it would be otherwise.

Personally I would second Go as a good answer for this. It has its limitations, but it’s simplicity and it’s standard library more than make up for that from a pragmatic standpoint imo