Comment by einpoklum

> Rust isn't popular

Fair enough - it's more fashionable that popular :-) It did close TIOBE's top 20 for 2022: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ (and that includes non-general-purpose languages)

... but you're right in that I could have probably chosen Go or TypeScript. The point is that Java is not remotely the latest popular general-purpose programming language.

> C# isn't general-purpose

It is, see definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_programming_la...

> and the other two are older than Java.

Javascript was named after Java... see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript

As for Python - you're technically right, but it only became popular after Java already was.