Comment What is cool? (Score 3, Insightful) 511
What is cool? Programming isn't cool. Programmers aren't cool. Being a guitar player in a great band is probably cool. Being a chick magnet might be cool. When has being a Java dev gotten anybody laid?
The only people who care about how "cool" a language is are posers. A professional developer is going to choose the tool that is going to let him/her build what he/she wants with the least fuss. For a lot of today's applications, that tool may well be Java.
What's uncool is a skill that won't get you a job. Java can get you a job, help you buy a car, a house, live your life.