I'm just curious—will there be many companies usin...

# compose

[mrjimin]

I'm just curious—will there be many companies using Ktor in 5 to 10 years?
Will it be able to beat Spring?

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

You’re not going to get any serious answers to such questions, only a mix of wishful thinking and misplaced guarantees

[Jack Boswell]

If you find anyone that can answer with certainty let me know - I'd like to ask them the lottery numbers

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

Certainty is easy. But I wouldn’t rely on getting the lottery numbers from them

[jw]

Many is undefined so yes, there will be many for some definition of many. The criteria for beating is undefined so yes, it will beat spring for some definition of beat.

[mrjimin]

If I were to learn again... What would be okay?

[mrjimin]

We were originally making it with KTOR, but I was wondering what the spring was like. Big corporations all use it.

[jw]

This has nothing to do with Compose. Try #C0B8RC352 maybe.

[hfhbd]

In many big companies, like Volkswagen, it is the choice of the team what tech stack they want to use.
In the past, many teams used Spring (Boot) because of the Java hype, but nowadays you either need maintain the server (you rarely change the webserver framework) or you start developing a new application, in that case they either keep using Spring Boot because they like/know it, or they use a completely different framework, like Ktor or Micronaut or a Go based server or nodeJS.
But often you also use the provided middleware that calls your application code.