Java changed my (professional!) life. In 1999 i was able to develop desktop applications for both windows and linux without (too much) pain thanks to the JVM. I

Java changed my (professional!) life. In 1999 i was able to develop desktop applications for both windows and linux without (too much) pain thanks to the JVM. It was love at first sight. After graduating i started developing web applications, always in java and it was very cool. Six years ago i started developing android mobile apps, always in java! So java was my love and game changing language and i still use it today for both web and mobile projects (Spring is a beautiful and easy to work with web framework). During all these years i have become a proficient developer also with groovy (Grails was great, but sloooow and little adopted), with objective-c developing iOS apps, php and javascript so i agree with who said that it is fundamental to learn different languages, but my favorite one is still JAVA, even today!