No other language has ever been hyped to the degree that Java was back in the day. The marketing was relentless and every month some new Java-related thing was

No other language has ever been hyped to the degree that Java was back in the day. The marketing was relentless and every month some new Java-related thing was going to change the world: thin clients, Java Cards, Java browsers, Java office suites... We will never see its like. There's no money in programming languages anymore, no one would drop the kind of cash on pushing their pet language that Sun did back in the day. What I'm saying is: Java have had its hype and should settle in for a dignified middle age rather than try to hang with the cool kids.