There is nothing wrong with hype if that hype is warranted, and Java certainly has an unmatched track record in terms of delivering solid, portable and easy to maintain code bases that power millions of applications today.
> The con was that it was inherently portable and secure and can be used for client software.
Java hasn't been pitched for client software since the death of applets, circa 1999.
Java is so good in so many domains that it's easier to name the areas where it's not the best: graphical applications and CPU intensive programs (games, numerical calculations). That's about it. For anything else, Java is most likely to be a very solid default choice.
In my opinion Java is pretty good at CPU intensive tasks. Where it falls short is memory usage and memory management. A lot of software is being written in C++ because Java cannot use much of a machine's memory without incurring rather large garbage collector pauses. What Java needs is structured value types and an affordable implementation of pauseless garbage collection.
There is nothing wrong with hype if that hype is warranted, and Java certainly has an unmatched track record in terms of delivering solid, portable and easy to maintain code bases that power millions of applications today.
> The con was that it was inherently portable and secure and can be used for client software.
Java hasn't been pitched for client software since the death of applets, circa 1999.
Java is so good in so many domains that it's easier to name the areas where it's not the best: graphical applications and CPU intensive programs (games, numerical calculations). That's about it. For anything else, Java is most likely to be a very solid default choice.