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BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 1 year agoMost of those are server-side languages and I’d disagree with the assessment. For web services Java needs some kind of server like Jetty, Undertow, or Tomcat. For testing you need JUnit or NGTest. And for common, everyday utilities you need something like Apache Commons or Guava. These things don’t “ship” with Java (and there’s actually a fair amount of runtimes now, it’s not only Oracle).
The thing that seems to benefit Java over Node is major corporate support (Oracle, RedHat, IBM) so for better or worse you can usually rely on a handful of essential tools being updated regularly.
bouncing@partizle.com 1 year ago
I wouldn’t say you need no dependencies in a Java project, but by all means check the average number of dependencies you get with Java or Python and compare it to almost any Node project.
You could probably sample projects on GitHub, look at the dependency graph, and compare.