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They're not cheap :) or -- I'm not sure what you mean by cheap, but good Java coders are generally amongst the best paid ones.

it's really bimodal imo, there's a tier of sweatshop contractor job that pays $50-70k (or did before salaries got nuts the last few years) and then senior jobs pay $140k ish average now. Senior getting paid more isn't new but it seems like maybe a 2x ratio is higher than elsewhere.

Good <insert any language> coders are generally amongst the best paid ones, but let's be honest an average Java developer is lost if they can't find an annotation to solve their problem. It was the "default mid-tier university language" for a while, and it really shows in quality of people who apply.

> Java developers are cheap and easy to find.

I wish.

Nobody said they’re good quality though.

> Java developers are cheap and easy to find

As opposed to what developers that aren't cheap? Node.js? PHP? C#? Python? I have no idea what developer you're talking about here. Do you think JEE developers are cheap?

Native AOT doesn’t improve performance, but start up time and memory overhead.