Lots of programming wars is just tribalism. Java is disliked on HN because it represent "enterprise" - big long-lived organizations which maintain a codebase for decades and therefore conservative. A different tribe than the startup tribe HN represent. Java is not in particular more verbose than say C or Rust for solving the same task, it is just a random slight on the language of a different tribe.
HN is a great community, but it has a very narrow perspective on the world.
As a beginner it is fine to chose to master one language first, but in the long run you should not "choose a language", but rater learn to learn any language, and understand they all have their strength and weaknesses.
But there are so many choices of tools and technology in this industry and it is impossible to learn it all. Tribalism makes the world simpler because it narrows your perspective.
HN is a great community, but it has a very narrow perspective on the world.
As a beginner it is fine to chose to master one language first, but in the long run you should not "choose a language", but rater learn to learn any language, and understand they all have their strength and weaknesses.
But there are so many choices of tools and technology in this industry and it is impossible to learn it all. Tribalism makes the world simpler because it narrows your perspective.