Not dying at all. Other languages talk a good game about threads, Java has a good story about threads... and virtual threads. I'm writing large complex applications instead of fighting with the borrow checker to do what <i>Software Tools</i> did in the 1970s. When Valhalla drops, the performance gap will close a bit more.
I remember when sun came out with java in the mid 90's.<p>I was always dumbfounded this "scripting" language, from <i>Sun</i>, didn't let you write code like:<p><pre><code> #!/usr/bin/java
...
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I suspect lots of unix (linux) would be different if this had happened.