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RIIR is justified in most of the cases because in the past the only reason to use a GCd language was memory safety for most of the apps.

RIIJ was justified too, because people believed the web will end up being java applets all the way down.

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And RIIJ also gives you memory safety

> And RIIJ also gives you memory safety

I think Java helped in the mainstreaming of memory safe and GC languages, especially in more corporate spaces where C/C++ was still mostly still a thing.

Certainly sysadmins were using a lot of Perl during that time, but for "real" enterprise software, I don't think dynamic-ish languages were as accepted. The use of Perl and rise of Python widened the Overton window.

And plausibly sandboxing, too, since the JVM used to carry a policy language with it that allowed granting access by package (or by public key, IIRC), a vestige from its days of running in the browser. But they recently killed that whole feature due to disuse

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