Java is currently unfashionable, and is popularly associated with enterprise architecture astronauts who add too many layers of abstraction to everything. It's

Java is currently unfashionable, and is popularly associated with enterprise architecture astronauts who add too many layers of abstraction to everything. It's about as good as any other language, and has more libraries than most. It's also mildly annoying to work with, but so is any language when used as more than a toy.