> Hiring developers is easy

> And that "team" nowadays may also consist of many AI agents.

And that's the part where the hireability arguments collapse. Sure Claude Code works pretty well with Java. It also works well with Typescript, Python, Go and Rust. It would use types on all of these languages, and run a type checker or LSP on the dynamic ones. And while Java is statically typed, Rust has a stricter type system that prevents some types of runtime bugs that Java's type system won't like data races and forgetting to release a resource.