lockje | 7 years ago | on: What Makes .NET Core So Special?
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lockje | 8 years ago | on: Java EE Is Moving to the Eclipse Foundation
Many of the open source libraries are concrete implementations of the Java EE specs. Hibernate uses JPA, GUICE standarized the CDI implementation (http://googlecode.blogspot.nl/2009/05/javaxinjectinject.html). And many of the technologies offered by Java EE are standarizations of concepts. This is highly valueable for reuseability and not having 10 libraries completely reinventing the wheel.
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Indeed Java has more boilerplate, but honestly I've never been bothered by it (as you can generate most within your IDE) and because its explicitly written down it can make code more readable.
And Java also has lambda's.