IBM joins Oracle for OpenJDK work

yes cool matters, you'd be naive to think programming languages aren't at least partially driven by fashion

the whims of taste will dictate who uses what tools and who you can expect to work with and what types of projects and what type of culture

you're in good luck, the cool kids like python. go work with them, they have free m&m's in their snack rooms

the java crowd will be relegated to offices where they put white powder in their food-service coffee