[suyash]

No one loves it. C, Perl, Python, Smalltalk, and Lisp programmers love their languages. I've never heard anyone say that they loved Java.

- You must be kidding me, ever been to any JUG meeting or JavaOne conference? There are millions of hardcore Java lovers at those places. Java has one of the the biggest developer community world wide. I love Java - it's one of the best programming language till date.

[manyxcxi]

To be fair, this was written in 2001- so things have changed some. But I will sort of agree with PG here. I write a lot of Java code. Primarily I write Java, then C#, PHP, C, and Python in that order. There are things I LOVE about C#, PHP, and Python- some of them are more about frameworks than the language itself, but either way... There's nothing I LOVE about Java other than it is MUCH easier to write web application/service code that is destined to be deployed to different environments/hardware. If C# had the portability of Java, I would never write another line. If Python had a few more things in the ecosystem, I might think about starting more projects in that language. PHP and C# are our go to ecosystems when we need something done with reasonable performance, for a reasonable price, in a short amount of time. Java means, by default, we're doubling our costs because we will either need more team members, more time, or both.

[meagain20000]

Hear, Hear! A Java fan here.

[peterashford]

me too: I love Java.