> And RIIJ also gives you memory safety I think Java helped in the mainstreaming of memory safe and GC languages, especially in more corporate spaces where C/C

> And RIIJ also gives you memory safety I think Java helped in the mainstreaming of memory safe and GC languages, especially in more corporate spaces where C/C++ was still mostly still a thing. Certainly sysadmins were using a lot of Perl during that time, but for "real" enterprise software, I don't think dynamic-ish languages were as accepted. The use of Perl and rise of Python widened the Overton window.