Don’t be! I’ve been using Haskell at work for the last year, but recently I discovered how much easier it is to use Java/Scala because of all the great libraries. Grass is always greener :)
Because I shared your views until I started working with it at a good team :-)
As I continued writing botj Java as well as other projects on other stacks Java became less and less annoying until today it is one of my two favorites.