Java is a fantastic "scripting" language as long as you're fine running it in an IDE. Clean and typed syntax, powerful standard library (especially for data structures), great performance. A better choice in these respects than say Python, Bash, or Go.
I've used it for scrapers, Advent of Code, plain ole data munging and of course programming interviews.
That being said, I would never write a webserver in Java in 2024.
Java is a fantastic "scripting" language as long as you're fine running it in an IDE. Clean and typed syntax, powerful standard library (especially for data structures), great performance. A better choice in these respects than say Python, Bash, or Go.
I've used it for scrapers, Advent of Code, plain ole data munging and of course programming interviews.
That being said, I would never write a webserver in Java in 2024.