Well I don't want to come along with you, as while Java might be an ok language, and a great runtime, the cultish Clean Code middle management, and design patterns, with intentionally obscure control flow paths thanks to stuff like dependency injection, and state smeared across dozens of objects (hidden behind interfaces ofc).

Javas biggest engineering upside was that its JIT compiler allowed the runtime to see through this mess and extract decent performance out of 5 layers of dynamic dispatch that shouldn't have been there in the first place.

Add to that the unclear licensing, which meant that there wasn't a single Linux distro that shipped it out of the box, and the development culture it fostered which required 10x the people each spending 10x the time to build features, and single-handedly was responsible for coining the term 'code monkey'.

As for the software - remember Eclipse? I sure do, but I haven't seen it in like half a decade or more, and that certainly doesnt make me sad.