[radicalbyte]

- Fantastic battle tested ecosystem of libraries. - Stable cross platform (kills Python, Node here). - Lingua franca.

Now I personally don't like Java - it feels crusty vs C# - but the libraries are amazing.

You can also use something nice like Kotlin and you have all of the platform benefits with non of the crusty language issues.

[fnord77]

I started using java 16 after a long hiatus from java 7 (instead doing rust and clojure) - I'm pretty happy with some of the new language features - lambdas, records, type inference, streams