Java has: - A decent type system, which makes it better than Python, JavaScript, R - Runtime errors with good stack traces instead of UB for things like inval

Java has: - A decent type system, which makes it better than Python, JavaScript, R - Runtime errors with good stack traces instead of UB for things like invalid casts or null dereference, which makes it better than C++ - Automatic memory management without complex borrowing rules, which makes it (arguably, for some situations) better than Rust - The JVM targets many different platforms and Java programs often “just work”, which makes it better than Swift - Decent abstraction, which makes it better than Go - Large ecosystem, which makes it better than Dart or Nim or Zig - C#? I’m not sure, C# is a lot like Java. IMO what Java has which is better than C# is Kotlin and better JetBrains support Now Java isn’t perfect. In fact I prefer Kotlin (always), Rust (despite the increased difficulty), and Swift (if the platform allows) as general-purpose languages. But unlike those, Java is one of the ancient big languages everyone knows about, and compared to the others (JavaScript, Python, C++) it’s the best general-purpose language by far.