The library safety issue comes up in the Rust article that's currently on the front page too. A safe language isn't really safe if half the libraries you use ar

The library safety issue comes up in the Rust article that's currently on the front page too. A safe language isn't really safe if half the libraries you use are just thin wrappers around a C library. This is one area where the JVM ecosystem definitely takes a huge lead. There just isn't much use of native code in that space. And often a library that does use native code will only use it optionally, for extra performance if you want, but there's a pure Java implementation available as well that runs well enough most of the time. That may start to change now binding to native code is getting easier, but it also may not. It's a culture thing as much as a tech thing.