The reality is that if Java was a useless language, it wouldn't be the most used programming language in the world. It's not the right tool for every task but

The reality is that if Java was a useless language, it wouldn't be the most used programming language in the world. It's not the right tool for every task but more people in the world find it the right tool for their job than any other language. There's a reason for that and it's not that a now defunct company funded its development decades ago.