All very fair points. But I think the ecosystem of a language is part of this discussion. And the ecosystem of year 2000 C++ is hard to run on current systems.

All very fair points. But I think the ecosystem of a language is part of this discussion. And the ecosystem of year 2000 C++ is hard to run on current systems. While the ecosystem of year 2000 java still works.(IMHO better than 2005 java) I would definitely not say that java is perfect, but the java ecosystem does have some very practical advantages that more than compensate for some of its very real disadvantages.