The folks around these parts tend to be from the dynamic languages camp. Folks who work in Lisp, Perl, Python, Ruby, and Smalltalk, tend to look at Java and see nothing more than unnecessarily chatty, and annoyingly prim, code. Most people here accept that Java has a place, but they'd usually prefer that place to be far away from their own projects.

You might like to read the pg article that summarizes much of (and may even be partially responsible for some of) the Java-hate you'll see around here:

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html