Comment by black3r

Startup stage companies work on smaller codebases and primarily need to go as fast as possible from nothing to a working prototype without the need to use many advanced features.... Java is a good language, but the community around it, whether it's experienced developers or libraries are built for enterprises, who work on huge codebases and their primary concerns are security, performance, scaling, testing, all of which are secondary in most startup environments and usually only start to matter years after the startup codebase is created...