"Java for everything, because it's the only statically type language with a fast runtime I know well". Ok, Java is not terrible (PHP is terrible), and the JVM

"Java for everything, because it's the only statically type language with a fast runtime I know well". Ok, Java is not terrible (PHP is terrible), and the JVM is a marvel of eat-your-RAM engineering, but this makes me sad, because there are only two things that can be said about Java: it's not terrible and it has a big ecosystem. There is nothing brilliant about it. It is slowly crawling toward convenient feature, but it's never going to be at the same level as a well-designed functional language in terms of correctness and readability-to-expressiveness ratio.