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There is no reason to love or hate a language. Every language has its strengths and weaknesses. C/C++ has its performance advantage but may require more skills and training. Php and Python is simple and fun, but you can't really use Php to write a search index. Java is somewhere in between, but the beauty of Java is its proclaimed "write once, at least test everywhere", which allows it to build up a large developer community very quickly. But that is also the downside of Java for its portability, and that is why many platform has to customize Java for speed such as IBM.