If you read HN you might get that impression, but that vast majority of software that needs security and good performance is being written in Java.
Alongside C# in more Microsoft influenced culture shops. :)
I wouldn't be surprised if that was closer to the truth. A heck of a lot of boring software runs on the JVM. That said, it's a slightly different niche from command line tools.
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If you were building a programming language, would you write it in Java or Rust?