From what I have seen, many people use the Eclipse IDE and with that Java is the "natural" choice. Agree with @coreyp_1, far too many courses at university foc

From what I have seen, many people use the Eclipse IDE and with that Java is the "natural" choice. Agree with @coreyp_1, far too many courses at university focus on Java. Years ago Java was seen as being more "portable" than C or C++ and better able to support OOP - so Java was chosen and taught widely. With all the books and supporting material it is easier to stick with it. Also industry seems to still favour Java. For example, IBM uses Java and Eclipse widely.