I don’t fear Java as much as I fear its acolytes.
My memory is hazy but I think there may have been more of a cult of Java when Sun was in charge of things. They knew now to inspire a following.
Well, that's just marketing department.
> I think there may have been more of a cult of Java when Sun was in charge of things.
I wouldn't call it a "cult", just normal technology hype. Yeah, it was there in the late 90s, but since at least 2010s, Java is a boring enterprise platform without much hype.
It might have before, like, 2005 when it became the default “intro to programming” language. And it might get some now that Python has taken that job. But for a while it was the “minimum requirements: fulfilled” of programming languages. There’s a lot to be said for fulfilling minimum requirements but that doesn’t tend to inspire evangelism.
It is a perfectly fine language in as much as I saw, that must be why it was selected for the sad fate of being many overwhelmed students’ first language.
I do think they’ve gained a little credibility now that we’ve inexplicably decided Electron is a serious platform and not an April Fool’s joke.