[acdha]

> The main advantage of Java in my mind is how old, mature, and stable the ecosystem is. Everything has a library for it.

One challenge here though is that many of those libraries are no longer maintained because the original developers moved away or retired years ago. I have a couple of relatively recent projects which require significant maintenance work dealing with unfixable CVEs or forced major updates which require non-trivial migration. That meant that even using an active project like Solr or Keycloak requires a surprising amount of maintenance developer time.

I don’t think we’ve fully gotten used to the changing supply chain trust situation in open source, and that’s going to hit all of the old ecosystems the hardest.