I would say that Go's error handling is a billion dollar mistake as well.
The JVM is very impressive and a great thing to build upon. The Java standard library is vast and the developers actually care about it (unlike the Python folks, who gave up on having a sane HTTP client library built-in and instead defer to the third-party requests library).
The Java language is not as great, lacking some quality-of-life features (properties and operator overloading, for example). It often suffers from design-by-committee (e.g. https://openjdk.org/jeps/430 ).
And then you get to the web frameworks. The most popular one is Spring, and it's a pain, with abuse of reflection and magic, bad docs, and other issues.
The JVM is very impressive and a great thing to build upon. The Java standard library is vast and the developers actually care about it (unlike the Python folks, who gave up on having a sane HTTP client library built-in and instead defer to the third-party requests library).
The Java language is not as great, lacking some quality-of-life features (properties and operator overloading, for example). It often suffers from design-by-committee (e.g. https://openjdk.org/jeps/430 ).
And then you get to the web frameworks. The most popular one is Spring, and it's a pain, with abuse of reflection and magic, bad docs, and other issues.