Edit: Also fuck this whole "it's so cool to shit on Java" thing. Grow up. You aren't in college anymore. You should recognize that Java fills its niche effectively, and does a decent job of being semi-fast, portable, easy to read and maintain, and safe.
The "it's so cool to shit on Java" thing served an important purpose and is probably close to being retired, but it's easy not to understand if you weren't a Java programmer some time in Java's heyday. There was a culture and a set of assumptions around Java that today you could probably only find in the most stodgy and insular corporate programming environments. I helped introduce Java into a development group and ended up hating the people and practices it infected us with. The hatred is not completely unrelated to the language (which runs on a great platform and is not a horrible language) but it would never have attached itself to the language without some of the pathological culture surrounding it.