While what you say is true, the context is a little bit different. Java built its whole world on the premise that you write your code once, and you run it every

While what you say is true, the context is a little bit different. Java built its whole world on the premise that you write your code once, and you run it everywhere [forever]. Every single breaking change loses you a bit of customers - I suppose Java just cared more about keeping their customers, rather than keeping their customers safe.