Comment by kaba0

Come on, Java is so insanely big that it simply will go there from momentum alone.

Many says it is the new Fortran/Cobol, especially in finance but it has something special — the JVM. Plenty of old software continues to run on virtualized hardware simply because they depend on a given CPU architecture’s quirks and can’t be ported. The JVM is well-specified and thus any program programmed against it can run indefinitely, independent of hardware. Being cross-platform is also “vertical” in that past and future architectures can also be supported.

And on top of that, tell me any other platform with a specification of both language and runtime (where even data races are not completely UB) that has as many independent implementation, many of which are supported by FAANG companies and could be developed alone further if anything were to happen to the others? Like, Alibaba alone could continuously develop the platform.