I think that’s been asked before. That’d be a massive undertaking, and they also support architectures that I don’t think Rust does (yet).

A lot of commercial apps are built with it. And if you’re not using Kotlin, you’re probably using Java for Android dev.

He went from a let-and-let-live, free-loving libertarian; to a more “kooky” libertarian. IMO, he was more palatable 20 years ago than now; though it’s hard to top the fall-from-grace Stallman has had…

If any of you happen to still be on Reddit, I actually maintain a “catalog” of these newer languages, as they come across my radar. One of my more recent finds is MiniScript, which the author of that has been using to port a fair amount of classic BASIC games from that GitHub archive I posted about recently. I got sucked into Nim, which seems like a good synthesis of Python, Javascript, and C++; c/nim exists for anyone interested.