[p8]

There's also a reason Kotlin has become the language of choice for the Android development industry, Scala became a thing, and ThoughtWorks recommended against using JavaServerFaces.

[pjmlp]

Because Android team had some Kotlin shills that pushed for it with management blessing, and they are in bed with JetBrains for the Android IDE, that is why, and even them had to accept updating Java support, otherwise Android/Kotlin would lose the ecosystem of Java written libraries, hence Java 11 LTS last year, and Java 17 LTS this year going, back to Android 12 with APEX archives.

Scala became a thing indeed, where it is now besides Spark?

ThoughWorks is a consultancy that recomends whatever brings new projects.

[p8]

So where are the Shopify's of that era build on Struts and JSF?