Now as for the “Java bad”, I’m kind of guilty of it too. I very much dislike how academia is obsessed with UML diagrams.

I'm kind of guilty of that too - in mindset - I just don't go around and shitpost about Java.

My dislike for Java also came from academia, since I had to use it in school. Though my main problem was just the general tool chain of Java. Like we had to use Eclipse or NetBeans. And then we had to write stuff in "JavaBeans" When instead of a normal "Person" class, you'd have to have a "PersonBean" and everything was so weird. And all the packages and references would constantly break or be missing, both in the project and even in the IDE itself...

After moving to C# and using Visual Studio, NetBeans just feels like you're trying to build a house with a rock instead of hammer, on an already crooked foundation.

Though that was a long time ago. I assume things have improved. But I never really had any reason to go back to Java