I'm not a huge fan of Java either, but sometimes it's important to get past that and either try and work with a language that's extremely effective for some deployments, or consider that the JVM supports quite a bit more platforms than just Java.

Oh you're not alone. I dislike Java as well, but there's no denying the power of the JVM and the ecosystem around it. If you really dig into it and look at it as a polyglot platform with choices like Groovy, Clojure, JRuby, and Scala, it becomes more palatable.

Regardless this post is not about .NET tooling, more about server efficiency and cost. Two areas where I think the JVM is a little further ahead.

There's always Scala, clojure, groovy, etc.