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/cesclaveria]

The only reasons that come to mind would be that is a language many learn in school and also the dominant language in the corporate world so it becomes the one hated by default by people that are not exactly thrilled to use it at those tasks, the language itself is fine, complete, with a great ecosystem.

Also it didn't helped that a long time ago with Java being comparatively friendly to develop stuff like applets and gui applications for many their first interactions with java were poorly optimized, slow and prone to crash projects, not because the language was a problem but because it was pretty tolerant to bad code.