> Java is another boring language, but it's also a very verbose one, even when fully utilizing Lombok/G-libraries/etc..

Incidentally, I find golang to be more verbose than Java. The amount of one-off functions you have to write to get around the lack of generics and/or map/filter calls on collections makes the code longer and harder to follow, and harder to debug. Not to mention error handling.

I generally agree with the gist of your post though.

What ended up happening with the startup you worked at out of curiosity?