Java is still used in a lot of companies. I'm from the Netherlands and a lot of the jobs here are Java or C# jobs(I think this is probably the same in Italy). I

Java is still used in a lot of companies. I'm from the Netherlands and a lot of the jobs here are Java or C# jobs(I think this is probably the same in Italy). I think this is a good enough reason to learn the language. It may be slower than C++ , but it is a lot faster than python, ruby or Javascript. Another reason to learn Java is that it is used for Android development. The current JEE(Servlets and jsp) version is a lot better than the old one(J2EE). You no longer have to configure lots of very big XML files. As a dynamic language you should probably learn Javascript first because it is used on the client side of web applications and some mobile platforms are moving to Javascript.