alt Hacker NewsYou have to put on some very narrow lenses to argue that "most" serious software is written for the JVM. Operating systems, compilers, browsers, databases, planes, cars, the transaction processing for at least one major payment processor, major cloud services, etc predominantly use other languages.
I don't think there's any single language that most serious software is written in.
C, C++, and C# are obviously also major players in "serious software", but you can estimate the volume of software through the number of people involved (e.g. https://www.devjobsscanner.com/blog/top-8-most-demanded-prog...). If Java doesn't have an outright majority, it has an obvious plurality. And again, there aren't many alternatives.