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I think it is unlikely that they will not still be relevant in 2025. With the recent improvements of the Java language and looking at the roadmap ahead, the Java language is looking more and more competitive.

Java 14 looks very promising and I think that the improvements to come will ensure that the language will not become irrelevant, which many believed 10 years ago (myself included)

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From a job market perspective yes, but please don't actually choose to use this bloated crap for anything if you don't have to. It takes a fast underlying platform and turns it into something that's so much slower and is doing so much metaprogramming that you're negating most of the safety guarantees of static typing and not even getting a substantial performance advantage for using a static language. There's simply no reason to use it unless you're stuck with a bunch of devs that only know Java or you're in a corporate environment where that's the only language you're allowed to use.

Spring Boot has been obsoleted by Micronaut.

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