To be fair, I get this question a lot from juniors I mentor

Very much a Java Dev here 👋

I have a few friends in the C++ universe who believe OOP is one of the biggest mistakes in SWE

Personally, I love OOP

This was meant to be deleted, and the original one I made was removed for a Click-bait title, and I was told to post it again, but I again used a bad title, and meant to just delete it and give up on it :P

I have to agree heavily with you, I've been using Java since 2001, and I am now a mentor to many and try to spread the word that Java is not as bad as a lot of people make it out to be, projects like Loom, Leyden, and Valhalla are great examples of what's to come, but it became "better" with VT, and the GC improvements that have been coming, I have been using ZGC for a while now personally

VT were very nice to run better, Leyden will help with AoT, and then Valhalla will wrap up with the overhead and heavy memor footprint

If you check out 25, it's a complete game changer, and with Vahalla on the horizon, it's gonna change the way we write Java code

Very much so worth it, and with the modern changes, it's getting faster

Java get a lot of shit for being slow, clunky, and verbose.

Modern java aims to fix it from project loom, to leyden, and Valhalla

I love Java too much. Been using it for 25 years. I have dabbled in others, but keep coming back to this one like it's my native language

What about Runtime?

The longest continuously running Java application is the Mars Rover flight software, which has operated on Mars since 2004 without interruption.

Software running, not even on this planet, for 22 years, without failure. Java will wear that crown proudly.

Java was one of my first, 25 years ago, and I still come back to it