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You’re not wrong, but it is funny how we got here from Gosling’s Oak addressing set top boxes.

The thing was built to address the burgeoning embedded w/ a little horsepower market with its variety of hardware and OSes.

Now it runs Enterprise server software… and Minecraft.

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Well, it does make sense - a controlled runtime failure is much better than a segfault, or worse, a silent failure corrupting heap. Pair it with decent performance even back than, increased developer productivity and the best observability tools, which is again helped by the VM-semantics.

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