This is an interesting take so here is my small input.
Sometimes I wonder if the language matters or the community/ecosystem for the domain is more important. I like Java myself but is it ever used for a small SaaS startup? Does it have great things to empower single developers? Rails land has things like ActiveStorage, Hotwire, super easy migrations, great CLI tool etc. SpringBoot is not the replacement you want.
Java feels terribly corporate and I feel its libs reflect it. I was recently looking for a Sidekiq alternative for Java land and the experience is so dramatically different all the way from pragmatism of the library and how its marketed to the beautiful documentation provided by Ruby land people.
I imagine it being the exact same case for Python and data science. The language you want to go is probably the language were millions of people before you went for the exact same scenario.
This is just a silly take and I will probably have changed my mind by the end of the year but a thought nonetheless.
The community/ecosystem of Java is just huge, there is basically no domain where it would have no libs available. Only python has a comparably large ecosystem.
Sometimes I wonder if the language matters or the community/ecosystem for the domain is more important. I like Java myself but is it ever used for a small SaaS startup? Does it have great things to empower single developers? Rails land has things like ActiveStorage, Hotwire, super easy migrations, great CLI tool etc. SpringBoot is not the replacement you want.
Java feels terribly corporate and I feel its libs reflect it. I was recently looking for a Sidekiq alternative for Java land and the experience is so dramatically different all the way from pragmatism of the library and how its marketed to the beautiful documentation provided by Ruby land people.
I imagine it being the exact same case for Python and data science. The language you want to go is probably the language were millions of people before you went for the exact same scenario.
This is just a silly take and I will probably have changed my mind by the end of the year but a thought nonetheless.