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The one thing I can say about java; the kinds of people who like Java tend to really like Java. Everyone else just leaves them to it.
And the people hating on it somehow never used any version above 8, which is 10 years old and EOL.
Same could be said about PHP
Having used PHP and Java extensively in my career, it's always entertaining to read what people think about these languages.
I haven't touched PHP since college, so about a decade, but back then I compared it to a very disorganized but well equipped toolbox. Everything you need to do your projects is there, but it's scattered through 12 different unorganized drawers and cubbies, there's an annoying mix of metric and imperial stuff, plus some random bits and bobs you inherited from your grandfather that you have no idea what they do.
Oh I'm firmly in the second camp. They can use whatever version they like, as long as I don't have to go near it.
I’ve used Java 21 pretty extensively, and it’s still comically bad compared to various alternatives, even apples-to-apples alternatives like C#. The only reason to use Java is that you’ve already been using Java.
I'd be interested to hear why. IMO Java has the superior ecosystem, runtime(s!), and community. The best part is that you don't even HAVE to use java to access all this - you can just use kotlin, groovy, scala,.... instead.
In terms of the language itself, while it (still) lacks some more modern language features, it has improved massively in that area as well, and they're improving at a significant rate still. It also suffers from similar issues as PHP, where it has some old APIs that they don't want to get rid of (yet?), but overall it's a solid language.