Why is a Java guy so excited about Node.js and JavaScript?
It&#x27;s not Java, it&#x27;s the java culture.<p>Yes, Maven and Gradle are weirdly complex, but they are workable. And .jar files are just downright amazing compared to most other things (I&#x27;m looking at you madman Python dependencies!)<p>Hint: maybe you could come up with something like npm for Java ? Maybe it&#x27;s waiting to happen?<p>And Javadocs are mundane but still better than &#x27;nodocs&#x27; which is the standard on Node.js which really needs to change, and could start with some standardization and leadership from somewhere ... maybe the Typescript team?<p>Oh, and also, since everything is JSON, and that blends nicely with JS ... my god man that&#x27;s so much nicer than JSON&#x2F;XML in Java which is often unwiedy.