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There are more factors than 'what can be built' with a language. A more popular language will have more projects written in it, and popularity is not necessarily based on merit (think about the promotion Java received because of commercial reasons).

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Java is a perfectly adequate language. I'm not saying network effects don't matter. I'm saying the focus should be on building things instead of some other metric like language purity.

Java is an acceptable programming language, but far from perfectly adequate. Its inadequacies are very well documented.

> Its inadequacies are very well documented.

Which is a very useful trait for a tool to have.

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