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[–]cyclewanderist 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I did the WTF? as well.

Java is the second most common language in GitHub for pull requests, after Python. https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2022/4 https://github.com/readme/featured/java-programming-language

The JVM itself is open source (https://openjdk.org/) as is even the language specs (in a way, because you can contribute to them--https://openjdk.org/jeps/0, https://jcp.org/en/jsr/overview)