Java is good, just not fun.

Over a few beers, fellow Python developers like to pound on the failures of Java and their use by large corporations..

My personal take on this is that the success of  software development is more a function of the team, than of the language used. It is wrong to blame Java for the failures of poor developer teams.

Java is stable, has plenty of libraries, lots of tools, is friendly to refactoring, testing, and it is not such a bad language. Just take a look at the tools developed in java by good teams (eclipse, apache, joss, spring and so on..)

* It just not as fun as other languages ;)