brave of netflix to not only come out with a 'detection as code' tool but to have that code be in java
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I mean I'm fine with it tbh, I'll take Java over most languages. It's ugly, and a very odd choice for D&R, but I honestly think it's about 1000x better than Python in virtually every way for 99% of use cases.
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It just feels like it would be a very unpopular choice. But I guess Netflix is very Java heavy.
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Java doesn't lock you into using Java as a language. It's painless to use Kotlin instead even in projects already heavily using Java. IntelliJ IDEA (or Android Studio) will happily convert it file-by-file. It might not be idiomatic to start but it's not that hard to clean it up.
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Netflix was heavily using Scala but it clearly didn't displace Java. They're increasingly adopting Kotlin and that has a much better chance of displacing it. I'm pretty sure they must use as much Python as they do Java based on what they publish and their job postings anyway.