[crthpl]

The idiom "Don't judge a book by its cover" applies to many situations, but books are not one of them.

[maxwell]

http://www.paulgraham.com/javacover.html#:~:text=book%20by%2...

[quickthrower2]

TIL:

    #:~:text=

Are there more of these, what is this magic!

[Crespyl]

It's a "text fragment"; started as a Chrome thing, other browsers are slowly adding support.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Text_fragments

[diego_sandoval]

At least he was totally right about Java not being a hacker language.

[mcmoor]

So, what actually makes Java successful despite all of these?

[bdw5204]

2 things (in the corporate world): Android and Spring framework. It's also basically OOP the language which means large enterprises are biased towards it.

Other factors are that it has very strong built-in libraries and has become a popular choice for "how to program" classes so lots of people are familiar with it. Having a similar name to JavaScript (the web's native language) also helps.

[n4r9]

These are reasons for why an individual hacker might not take to a language. They don't factor in to a large organisation's choice of language. And to be honest, quite a few of these arguments would apply to Javascript as well.