> Java development is for a specific type of programmer that will most likely work for large corporation and more often than not on some unsexy backend system.

There is always a rule to every exception. I am in startup that uses Java. We are creating medical device software that runs on Linux. We have a JavaFX application that connects to a PostgreSQL database on Docker. The application also uses an embedded Jetty server to expose a series of HTTP endpoints as well as a websocket. We use Jogl to work with OpenGL to render 2d graphics to the screen.

This is by far the coolest project I have worked on.