> 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/ https://www.

> 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/ 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_language 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript As for Python - you're technically right, but it only became popular after Java already was.