I'm part of that younger crowd, and it's probably because they associate it with a) their first CS class b) 90s Java applets on the web while growing up and c)

I'm part of that younger crowd, and it's probably because they associate it with a) their first CS class b) 90s Java applets on the web while growing up and c) Oracle. I love Java, and I've learned to let go of (a) and (b).