The state of Java [developers] — reflections on Devoxx 2019

I attended Devoxx Belgium — November 2019. The yearly gathering of over 3000 Java developers (numbers provided by Devoxx website). Maybe not all of them Java and perhaps some not even developers. But by and large … Java and software development are the core themes.

This conference has taken the place of JavaOne as the premier venue for the Java community — to…