> The adoption of Go, Rust, et al show that people just aren't that into VMs anymore. Did you actually look at the numbers? Go is certainly gaining some popul

> The adoption of Go, Rust, et al show that people just aren't that into VMs anymore. Did you actually look at the numbers? Go is certainly gaining some popularity, and Rust too (although an order of magnitude below Go) but both of these still have a fraction of the mind share that Java has. You're being dazzled by the hype and forgetting to look at hard data.