fabian

PMs and UXers are the Tom Sayers of the software world, whitewashing aunt Polly's fence and making the other kids do the work and pay for the privilege.

Google Web Toolkit was a thing at some point in time. ;y current company still maintains some apps which are written in it.

Assuming that your company has a profitable business, and you are working on the part brings in the revenue that pays the bills, you'll keep that as long as your company is interested in keeping that business. Your CTO is burning money (and fast!), maybe they've picked that habit up in a zero-interest environment, but well interest rates aren't zero anymore, so I'd be more worried if I were part of the secret internal startup.

Java is not very much older than Javascript and at the time it was far from the world's first programming language. It probably was measured by hype in developer circles the Rust of the mid-nineties.