I don't like Java as a language at all, it's really annoying, and I avoid it where possible.
But I'm pretty sure this is nonsense:
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I don't think many people use (or at least, decide to start learning) Java anymore
It's the sort of thing lots of people say about technologies that aren't mentioned regularly, or they simply don't have much exposure to, and thus assume are withering away.
Java is huge, and even if Oracle
wanted to kill it off I'm not sure they could (there's too many companies like IBM, Google, RedHat, Apache, etc who are all heavily invested in it).
And certainly, if he is crazy enough to pick it, he'll have no less trouble finding help with Java than he will with C# or JavaScript or anything else.