But like can you provide an actual example of an application?
> But people just want to compare it to building a cli tool in go or rust.
This seems like the key. HN is definitely biased towards simpler, smaller tools. (And that's not a bad thing!). The most compelling JVM stories I hear are all from much larger scale enterprise settings.
Kafka being a good example. It's very good at what it does, but painful to manage and usually not worth the pain for anyone who's not in a mega enterprise.
> But people just want to compare it to building a cli tool in go or rust.
This seems like the key. HN is definitely biased towards simpler, smaller tools. (And that's not a bad thing!). The most compelling JVM stories I hear are all from much larger scale enterprise settings.
Kafka being a good example. It's very good at what it does, but painful to manage and usually not worth the pain for anyone who's not in a mega enterprise.