Joke’s on you, I use Java for some open-source projects I’m developing in my own free time, and it’s awesome. The type system is really helpful, the standard library is good, the IDEs are top notch, refactoring and debugging is easy, it’s stable and fast.
Maven is great for dependency management and for publishing your own work. Gradle takes some time to learn and I didn’t like it at first, but once it ‘clicked’ I grew to appreciate its flexibility.
This is so cool! I love the theme.
You have good taste in DOS games as well. Is the “CAT” folder the 1984 game “Alley Cat”?