4 years after, I still don't understand!

Why does everyone hate Java so much?

To me it seems like it's got it's strengths and weakness like any other language.

I'm aware of it's weakness but I don't think that the amount of hatred upon the whole language is justified.

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What are you talking about? Java has grown in popularity these past years.

Everything is well documented and it has just enough abstraction to not be a complete hardware slave. That's a pretty good balance in my opinion.