What's up with all this hate with Java?

Long pause...

Well quite a few people here prefer c over c++ because c++ is bloated.

You could imagine my reaction as a Java dev haha

@ChappIO I am actually learning C++ in Uni right now. Could you please elaborate on what you mean by bloated?

@Xerev I don't share that opinion with those people so i cannot elaborate

@Xerev search for c++11/14/17 features and see.
Java is the most general programming language there is. People who write in Java feel like it's the only language needed in the world and they won't be wrong, you can do everything in it. But that's it's weakness, it's not particularly good at anything. If you are creating a simple webserver to fetch items from a database and send it to the UI, JS with its native JSON capabilities is much simpler. If you need some heavy concurrent calculations use a functional language. For desktop apps you have many choices WUP, electron, etc. So Java is a jack of all trades but master of none.

For me, Java sucks cause of all the boilerplate code required to do everything. I prefer to use scala and python mostly cause they tend to produce consice readable code.