[entha_saava]

This point has to be noted. There are languages other than Go with optimizing compilers, and those compiling to C. Go has focus on fast compiles and doesn't do much optimization. And no generics means many things are done using reflection / reimplemented poorly and can be slow.

OCaml, Haskell, SML with MLTon, Nim, D, Crystal etc.. have better performance than Java unless one benchmarks a tight numerical loop. Not to mention memory consumption.

JITs are oversold. JIT may be great for optimizing Python or Lua. Moreover java is just poorly designed from a performance standpoint - no value types, virtual by default.

[pjmlp]

Value types are coming, EA are available and virtual by default has long stopped being a problem thanks to StrongTalk optimization regarding de-virtualization across shared libraries and call caches.

That "better performance" isn't reflecting in market share.

[entha_saava]

Performance and market share are different things.

[pjmlp]

Not when adoption is at play.

[smabie]

What point are you trying to make?

[pjmlp]

That the beauty of "OCaml, Haskell, SML with MLTon, Nim, D, C" and lack effectiveness of JIT compilers have done very little for them to take market share from Java in any significant way.

In case of C, on the contrary it lost to Java the majority of the roles it owned during 90's enterprise distributed computing applications.