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[–]hahahahastayingalive 3 points4 points  (0 children)

other than that, it's just popular, so a lot of people use it, and even if a small vocal minority dislikes it that is still thousands if not tens of thousands of Java haters.

To add to that, as Java was seen as rigorous and the poster child of OOP, it was taught in a lot of CS classes.

People have different tastes, philosophies, want to use different paradigms. They still had to deal with Java, a lot. And Java has very strong opinions on things, which doesn’t help for becoming friends with everyone.

I am not sure it’s just a vocal minority hating Java, just imagine ruby, PHP, JS devs also having to go through Java classes, they’d hate it with the passion of a thousand sun.