Red Hat Replaces Oracle as OpenJDK 8, OpenJDK 11 Steward
While Java certainly has a value for a maintenance, because of the troves of legacy projects, I am not sure why anyone would want to start a new project with it. From Scala Native, Kotlin Native (closer to Java world) to Elixir (Beam VM), from Rust to OCaml, from Go to F#, etc. I wish all these money and efforts were directed to development of newer, better languages, rather than reinforcing Java.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that recently linked Mercury startup uses Haskell.