Java is a pretty boring language, it must be said. But that's what makes it so good for real world usage - its got a lot of library support and many issues tend

Java is a pretty boring language, it must be said. But that's what makes it so good for real world usage - its got a lot of library support and many issues tend to have been ironed out already. Couple of weeks ago I was using Selenium's WebDriver SDK with a Ruby client program. It failed in some obscure TCP/IP stack error coming out of the C Ruby implementation. Using a java client just worked.