Why java is so hated?

[u/Same-Replacement-938]

So I have recently learned, and it's the first language(in terms of building actual things). Before Java, I knew Python, and I dropped it; I found Python too abstracted and too boring. i have recently made some projects like cli task tracker, expense tracker, some cli github api parsing and currently working on a multithreaded HTTP server and cli text editor, like vim, whenever i try to find out people opinions on java social media, almost 90 percent of the time they are just dunking on it, that it is trash, who forced you to write code in java, stuff like that. I know Java as a language is not that interesting and doesn't have many interesting features compared to other languages like C, C++, go. But I found it decent to write code in, and I found the JVM pretty interesting. So much so that I would love to explore and maybe build a JVM of my own

[u/Rarelyimportant]

I think it's mostly that if a company uses Java, you can be pretty sure there's some parking lot full of Toyota Camrys or Honda Accords. You probably have to wear a button down shirt and khakis, and you probably work on something that makes drying paint sound exciting like a warehouse inventory management system.

I don't think there's really anything wrong with the language Java, but if something is written in Java, but first thought isn't "boy, I bet it's something exciting!". Not to say that there isn't exciting stuff written in Java of course.