Once a code base gets big enough to be larger than a handfuls of files, a text editor just won't be able to keep up with the refactoring/reorganizing capabiliti

Once a code base gets big enough to be larger than a handfuls of files, a text editor just won't be able to keep up with the refactoring/reorganizing capabilities of a statically typed language managed by an IDE. This feature of Java alone makes it well worth it (over say JavaScript or Python), despite whatever other issues the language has.