> an effort to once again become relevant. I was unaware that being the 2nd and 3rd most popular language made it not relevant when I guess nothing is relevant

> an effort to once again become relevant. I was unaware that being the 2nd and 3rd most popular language made it not relevant when I guess nothing is relevant except Java. (Per the Tiobe index) If you need high level abstractions and the ability to tweak for performance at the lowest levels the it is either C++ or Rust, and if you need a mature ecosystem that really only leaves C++. Game devs, Google, Facebook, HPC and tons of stuff and now with emscripten and WASM we get to compete with JS devs for in browser games too!