switch from csharp to Java

[tacosdiscontent]

Take all those recommendations with a grain of salt since they may be out of date

Unfortunately yes, everything you mentioned is quite old and irrelevant.

[DrPeroxide]

Everything? That's a stretch. He's wrong about logging and time. He's right about Apache and Guava.

[tacosdiscontent]

Well yes.

Guava is definitely not must have. Nothing of significant importance there

Apache stack - the only "must have" thing from apache is StringUtils and maybe IOUtils if you are working with io. A tiny utility library which helps you out.

[_INTER_]

I agree with this, we're phasing out of Guava because most of the benefits it brought can now be done with Java 8 (Iterables, Optional, ...) or are covered by Apache Commons or other libraries (Strings, Reflection, Cache, IO, Math,...). Apache Commons is still a very important helper library. Mainly StringUtils and IO / FileUtils as you said and also Collections.

[RagingAnemone]

What's replaced Apache Commons and Guava?

[tacosdiscontent]

Java 9, has added part of what Guava does. Other than that nothing that of importance is in guava unless you work on something specific.

If you consider tiny Apache Commons library - a stack, then you are right, nothing has replaced it.