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> Second, Rama has a pure Java API and is not a bespoke language. So no new language needs to be learned.

Isn't Mastodon a Ruby On Rails application?

The article says they re-wrote Mastodon from scratch (probably the backend piece). I'm guessing in Java.

Yes, it's 100% written in Java.

This looks interesting and a nice weekend read but just skimming through, why is spring needed?

Nevermind (it has to be paired with some web server/framework).