Yes, lots of people care. Just because it's not trendy to program in java and it doesn't get as much hype as ruby/python/etc, doesn't mean it's irrelevant.
I agree. It's irritating how idiotic people get with languages. They go from "This is the bees knees! It can be used anywhere! It's the best thing since sliced bread", to "This is irrelevant now we have our new fad favourite language"
Why can't a language just be good at some things, and not others? Do we need a grand unifying language that is great for everything?
If you want a reliable, scalable, bullet proof backend, java is still pretty hard to beat.
