Plenty of startups in silicon valley use java. If you want to talk about text editor coding performance, yeah java is the worst language of all time. However, w

Plenty of startups in silicon valley use java. If you want to talk about text editor coding performance, yeah java is the worst language of all time. However, when you have eclipse which features super efficient source code generation, code navigation and autocomplete tools? It's actually nice to have a verbose language. imho this facilitates merging documentation with code, whereas a more mathematical programming style tends to be more cryptic.