My honest opinion is that JVM folks love complexity though. It's a mix of popularity, job security and good marketing that allow the traditional bloat-powerhouses to remain popular while technologies like Vert.x remain criminally under-utilized (see the rest of this thread for evidence). I don't know how or if this will ever change, but the downside for the JVM ecosystem overall is that people associate the JVM with things like Spring and Hibernate rather than things like Vert.x. And that's a shame.
My honest opinion is that JVM folks love complexity though. It's a mix of popularity, job security and good marketing that allow the traditional bloat-powerhouses to remain popular while technologies like Vert.x remain criminally under-utilized (see the rest of this thread for evidence). I don't know how or if this will ever change, but the downside for the JVM ecosystem overall is that people associate the JVM with things like Spring and Hibernate rather than things like Vert.x. And that's a shame.