What are your thoughts on Java?

As Java is platform independent, it's good if you want to create applications for multiple operating systems. Also, Java developers usually have very good salaries, so that's a plus, if you're going to code stuff for others.

Java is a great programming language. If you want to build a program that is a platform independent then Java would be a good choice. But no matter how awesome a programming language is, It still depends on what you're trying to achieve.

Why bring up a dirty old thread from 2011? I am getting caught in the cobwebs.

Maybe hes still in 2009 like Java . Dont forget java is blocked nowadays and its dirty

JAVA is a more difficult language that produces faster code. This means that your program will run faster, but it will take you longer to build it. For most applications, computer hardware is so fast that your program does not need to run faster and the bottleneck will be the time you put into programming it by far.

For this reason, better languages to pursue would probably be Python and Javascript.