> why people still use Java these days Because of the Java ecosystem, e.g. https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?language https://projects.apache.org/proj

> why people still use Java these days Because of the Java ecosystem, e.g. https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?language https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?language https://marketplace.eclipse.org/ https://marketplace.eclipse.org/ Looking at this I sometimes cannot help thinking, "One must be insane not to use Java." (I use C++.) See also, e.g. https://jackson.sh/posts/2021-04-java-underrated/ https://jackson.sh/posts/2021-04-java-underrated/ P.S. Perl's and Python's ecosystems are also great, but Java is (much) faster.