Yep, in the last few years I keep thinking, "Maybe it's time to get over my distaste for Java and just use it". They have some kind of type system, lots of pretty good tools (aside from Eclipse) and documentation for even the crappiest Java library is light years ahead of what you get with most JavaScript projects (even API docs for Java libs are easier to navigate and read!)
"Oh hey data hipsters, no I'm sorry our SQL data base is 200TB, no we don't have performance problems."
"Oh no we don't need your functional restless framework, we've been using a java framework for like 10 years, it peaks out at 1000 req/s."
"Why would we buy 4 webservers? It has 4 nics, and 8 CPU sockets. Sure it costs 500k each, but then we can keep using our java framework."