The significant word there is student. CS departments started using Java for an awful lot of teaching. I would wager that plenty of those "hard" OSS projects ha

The significant word there is student. CS departments started using Java for an awful lot of teaching. I would wager that plenty of those "hard" OSS projects have a genesis in academia, and even if not that Java became a sort of lingua franca for writing code you wanted discussed or accepted in that sort of way.