Hear, hear! Is Java the right tool for everything? No, but for large code bases, it is miles easier to dive into a codebase, and the tooling is so much better than anything else I've seen that's not Visual Studio (as much as I'm not a MS fan, VS is really nice).
Is Java perfect? No, but it gets a whole lot of things not-wrong. More reasons: https://drew.thecsillags.com/Why-Java/