I'm 7/9 on your list ("versed" if not necessarily "expert"), and I can honestly ...

regularfry on June 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hate Java? You’re fighting the wrong battle.

I'm 7/9 on your list ("versed" if not necessarily "expert"), and I can honestly say that there's only one sweet spot for Java that I've been able to identify: cross-platform GUI work. And that's entirely down to the tooling.