There is no greater sin than to say something positive about Java on the orange site...

IMO Java and C# and other compiled languages have the opposite problem with languages like python and JavaScript (I love all these languages btw). It’s easy to get up and running quickly with the latter. It’s not until your project has grown in complexity when the formers value becomes apparent. This is similar to mongodb vs say, Postgres.

Also modern Java has picked up a lot of the better ideas from Kotlin and Scala. I still prefer Kotlin but I think a lot of criticism I read is referring to older versions of Java.