[gjmacd]

Jeez, seems like overkill when you get that free in more modern of stacks. Move to Elixir. Pattern matching is done right and it's brilliantly designed. I understand that if you're having to maintain Java applications, but why anybody would stomach a NEW project on that behemoth is beyond me. I'm not just talking about performance, I'm talking about object topology BS, complicated libraries, etc. Java (for me now) seems like it's bolted on to the Web and simply doesn't have it's place as a Web stack. My opinion of course but with the great amount of stacks out there -- I don't get the fascination.