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by DanielRibeiro 5336 days ago
Intellij, Eclipse and Netbeans, great software written in Java. Haddop, as well. Not to mention Minecraft, but this point I'll leave to Techcrunch[1]

Java is not a great language by all means, the VM does have it issues (it is very old, and has to deal with its legacy), but it is not on a really important piece of software, its quality is quite good.

At the very least, it is, ironically, responsible for LISP's renewed interest through Clojure.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/15/a-brief-explanation-of-why-...