You are correct. Java's niche is servers that need to accept a lot of concurrent connections and middleware that can shove data around via a set of standard pro

You are correct. Java's niche is servers that need to accept a lot of concurrent connections and middleware that can shove data around via a set of standard protocols. Outside of those enterprise-centric areas, it's not a great fit for much else (fast data processing, embedded, games, etc.) I say this as someone who has worked with server-side Java since 1999.