[w0utert]

There's just an enormous supply of Java developers and consultants around, which makes it an easy business decision when deciding the technology to base your projects on. I would not be surprised if a very significant majority of Java code being written today is boring business logic and dime-a-dozen web services.

For new OSS or hobby/pet projects I can also not come up with a single reason to use Java, except "I don't know anything else and don't want to invest time learning"

[ohaideredevs]

I hate Java. It wasn't the first language I learned, but it wasn't the 2nd or 3rd either, so I don't think it's just inexperience. It feels like everything takes 3 times as long in C# as Javascript (though I understand AND appreciate why). It feels like Java takes 10x the time, and I DONT understand why. Everything seems overly convoluted. Even recent features like streams.