[mav3ri3k]

From my perspective (college student), it is true that there is godly amount of C code in the world which would remain true for a long long time. In similar sense there are also quite a lot of new java developers who maintain the millions of lines of java code.

However a lot of new infrastructure is being developed in rust. Infact it can be argued that the very reason it should be in rust is because it is critical. I think there would be great value if a person can efficiently thread between both rust and c rather than competing.

[MBCook]

Java is not an old “maintain the code” language as you seem to imply. Despite not being the new hotness for about 25 years it’s an extremely useful and productive language and I assure you there are tons and tons of new things being written in it every day. The language is still evolving and has been getting great improvements. Yeah it has some warts, but it’s been running and keeping backwards compatibility for 30 years despite evolving.

[pjmlp]

Many seem to forget all the time, that the Java ecosystem powers the most widely sold mobile OS platform across the globe.

[MBCook]

Including me! I was referring to server stuff, since server side Java is my job and thus front of mind.

But you’re dead right. At this point Android apps may be the bigger set of code. Or at least put up a good fight.

[lenkite]

There are a ridiculous number of greenfield Java projects being started every day. Far more than Rust by orders of magnitude.

[jay-barronville]

> Infact it can be argued that the very reason it should be in rust is because it is critical. I think there would be great value if a person can efficiently thread between both rust and c rather than competing.

I fully agree with that.