You&#x27;re comparing an OS independent language to an entire operating system? I think you&#x27;re probably right, I don&#x27;t think there is a sane comparison. But I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s what the parent was referring to.<p>I&#x27;m not sure there are too many languages that provide (eg via slf4j or JMX) extremely customisable, universal logging and monitoring across multiple libraries that are used together in a single application. That&#x27;s not a function of the language itself though, just the maturity of the libraries and ecosystem around it. Combine that with the tooling (eg IntelliJ IDEA) and no matter how much you might think Java as a language is verbose&#x2F;clunky&#x2F;crappy (which I tend to agree with), it&#x27;s pretty hard to beat for large, complex, maintainable systems.