On Java

I have to say that Java is my preferred language to build user applications (as I love C to develop operating system code or low level code).
The things I love from Java are:

• Static typing: I love when variables do not change type and types are checked at compile time.
  
• Powerful Integrated development environments with code completion and inline error checking like Eclipse.
• Speed. Java is not significally slower than C but is much less programming error prone.
  
• Structured and correct Application programming interface.
  
• Correct String based manipulation APIs for Unicode text. I have still not seen a "scripting" language that manages strings correctly with its encoding and differentiates correctly a string from a byte buffer.
• Opensource OpenJDK