Yeah, I'm also heavily ranting. My nick is meant as a hint haha. In the end and after quite a few years we're almost at a point where we love to work with our stack, minus the occasional weird funky thing happening because of the ecosystem (which would never happen in something like Go for example!). Hexagonal + Kotlin + Gradle multi-modules is a beast!
> My pain point was usually related to the differences you need to do among Java, Groovy, Kotlin but otherwise it is awesome.
Yup, agreed! We got to run kotlin pretty nice and got to play it together nicely with gradle convention plugins.
Agreed on Python. Was my first properly learned language back in the days and my first backend lang. Absolutely annoying. I also love go, but it lacks something like gradle, especially multi-module support. I love it but don't see it on a scale as our Kotlin codebase.
> engineers are cheaper to hire
I think there's also the benefit of an exotic language. You might only get 10 CVs, but you could probably hire half of them because only passionate people bother to look into exotic things. With java you have a bigger bandwidth ... which causes a lot of work.
> My pain point was usually related to the differences you need to do among Java, Groovy, Kotlin but otherwise it is awesome.
Yup, agreed! We got to run kotlin pretty nice and got to play it together nicely with gradle convention plugins.
Agreed on Python. Was my first properly learned language back in the days and my first backend lang. Absolutely annoying. I also love go, but it lacks something like gradle, especially multi-module support. I love it but don't see it on a scale as our Kotlin codebase.
> engineers are cheaper to hire
I think there's also the benefit of an exotic language. You might only get 10 CVs, but you could probably hire half of them because only passionate people bother to look into exotic things. With java you have a bigger bandwidth ... which causes a lot of work.