I was kind of expected that the Java will win this, but I think this is clearly misleading. Java is an OK language IMO, its just the open source and j2ee part are bad. But if you let the assumptions which come from sun, oracle and other j2ee pushers, the language is very easy and capable of working with. For instance - the common "wisdom" is to use getter and setter. However if you just declare all your fields as public the code becomes much less verbose and usable. If you are determined to have the work done, Java will do it as fine as any other language and will be very fast and maintainable.