I feel for Java. Everytime I've used it, I've been pleasantly surprised by the language. It has some truly amazing features (steams where very cool).
Then I get to the tooling and it's just such a pain, if it's working we don't touch it. Our repository was checked in "eclipse format". Tried to move it to jetbrains. No dice. it too, me a few days to get it so i could compile and run under eclipse. I'm not an expert but I don't want to touch it for fear of breaking. New projects aren't done in Java. Php perl and python have a better dependency story, though slower.
Then I get to the tooling and it's just such a pain, if it's working we don't touch it. Our repository was checked in "eclipse format". Tried to move it to jetbrains. No dice. it too, me a few days to get it so i could compile and run under eclipse. I'm not an expert but I don't want to touch it for fear of breaking. New projects aren't done in Java. Php perl and python have a better dependency story, though slower.