[assusdan]

Actually, it is up-to-date (new features twice a year, some of them, e.g. virtual threads, are truly SotA) and not legacy (things like graalvm and helidon 4 are relatively new and are awesome). Do not avoid Java if your project would benefit from it.

[cvalka]

Almost no new project would benefit from Java. Android apps should use Kotlin. Avoid JVM for new projects unless there is no other way.