"Seriously, people are starting NEW projects with Java" Yes, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people do. The vast majority of business applications ar

"Seriously, people are starting NEW projects with Java" Yes, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people do. The vast majority of business applications are written in Java, and huge new projects are started with it each day. "as the language of choice?" That is a point that is completely disjoint from the first part of the statement. Only a very small percentage of all developers gets to choose what languages they work with.