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Java had a lot of things going on for it. Huge marketing push, whole set of everything both language and lib-wise, and killer domain which was SIM and mobile wh

Java had a lot of things going on for it. Huge marketing push, whole set of everything both language and lib-wise, and killer domain which was SIM and mobile which if you wanted to do it was your only choice. Rust has no such things at the level Java had when it rose. It's more of an organic grassroots movement certain companies have started to pick up.

tcmart14 2y ago
Yea it did, and its important when making comparisons to not glaze over it. Java with the, write once and run anywhere mantra due to the JVM was a huge deal. Granted, in some ways it didn't pan out as well as advertised (embedded Java), but for an enterprise desktop application, it was definitely a huge win for the time.
- pjmlp 2y ago
  Apparently there was something to it, otherwise we wouldn't have every other day a WebAssembly startup being upvoted.