Java

The control structures and naming of basic data types in Java and C# clearly inherit C's style.

CFML is a niche language, with far fewer high-quality public security samples than PHP or Java, and models have weaker intuition for it.

The ColdFusion server requires a commercial license, and its ecosystem is far smaller than open-source technologies such as PHP and Java, with relatively scarce third-party security tools, static analyzers, and publicly available vulnerability samples.

Traditional backends are usually written by engineers in Python, Node.js, or Java, together with a database, a message queue, an Nginx reverse proxy, and a deployment pipeline.

There have long been two approaches to memory safety in systems programming languages: compile-time static checking, represented by Rust, and runtime GC, represented by Go and Java.

Aspire 13.6 adds authenticated REPL access for common databases, first-party Java and Rust hosting support, and Azure Container App Sandboxes as a preview deployment target.

The author argues that C++'s excessive complexity may cause frustration rather than engagement, that Python's high-level abstractions allow decision-making steps to be skipped, and that Java strikes a balance between rigor and usability.

Java is a statically typed language where variable types must be explicitly specified at declaration time, whereas JavaScript and Python are dynamically typed languages where variable types are determined at runtime.

The author believes that Java's static typing and verbose syntax force developers to think about data structures, memory management, and object-oriented principles, and that this deliberate awkwardness is the value it offers as a language to return to.

The article recommends starting with native Java servlets to understand the essence of HTTP request handling when transitioning to backend development, rather than jumping straight into the Spring framework.