The strongest plus I could say for Java is that it's a stable workhorse that pays the bills, and that the tooling is pretty good. Non IDE workflows don't exist

The strongest plus I could say for Java is that it's a stable workhorse that pays the bills, and that the tooling is pretty good. Non IDE workflows don't exist practically, as a curiosity it's nice to compile something "by hand", but the knowledge is nonessential. Switching from one IDE to another is not that big of a deal, workflow-wise, you shouldn't worry about it. As a side note, I appreciate that we have multiple tooling for Java. It doesn't sit well with me when the whole language, and its IDE and compiler and everything is bundled up in one package and that's all you have.