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Java reputation suffers because of the association of such language with corporate drones.

We may say that with the current crop of languages running on the JVM, Java is a low-level language. It is to the JVM what C is to hardware. You avoid coding in both when you have higher-level languages available which will make you more productive.

But when you want to optimize performance on the JVM for specific chunks of your application - without resorting to JVM bytecode of course - Java is the right choice.