why does java suck?

I've noticed in the short time I've been reading this board that there's a lot of java bashing, so I was wondering why people actually think it is so bad. I'm no java fan, but I've used it for some stuff before and it didn't seem terrible to me. An argument used to be that it runs slow as a guro-fied loli, but they've improved a lot in that aspect.

Please give good reasons, rather than stuff like "it's for certified professional consultants" or whatever you guys say.

>>56
Ah, the mating call of the Certified Java Professional: "That won't scale. Needs more Enterprise."

Funny thing was that Java was originally intended to be an embedded language for set top boxes. That didn't work out, so some moron invented applets. Finally it ended up on servers, hidden behind mountains of frameworks and XML. Now people are abandoning it for languages that don't punish you for believing in the KISS principle; Ruby on Rails seems to be the future unless something better comes along. A simple, powerful language with a simple, powerful framework.