I'm not a java programmer (my knee jerk reaction to quickly bang out an MVP would mostly be python), but this negative attitude towards Java seems unfair. There

I'm not a java programmer (my knee jerk reaction to quickly bang out an MVP would mostly be python), but this negative attitude towards Java seems unfair. There's a lot more to the Java universe than just enterprise Java. There are companies using Java that do cool stuff at large scale, and very reliable. Netflix is heavily Java, and nobody would (at least I wouldn't) argue that their tech is dull. Even if you are looking for pure hip factor, there's things like vert.x, and all these other JVM languages, which are not Java per se, but one of the selling points of those languages is it can utilize tons of libraries in the java ecosystem if needed. The last argument against java would be its verbosity and productivity (lack of), but I'd argue Java has one of the best IDE support among all languages, which helps alleviate the problem significantly.