Being pretty fast for a relatively simple user experience is one thing people use it for: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&test=composi

Being pretty fast for a relatively simple user experience is one thing people use it for: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&test=composite https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&tes... Sure, Rust and C++ is probably faster when used naively, but I'm sure you'd have a harder time develop stuff in those languages. Personally I'd probably reach for Rust before touching Java with a ten-foot pole, but people have different preferences for how easy a language should be to pick up, and if you're used to OOP and C-like languages, Java is pretty easy to pick up.