[zinxq]

In the context of "History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes", this is just what happened when Java appeared. Everyone noting it was written in Java (as, believe it or not, it was the cool new language).

It might have actually been worse, because there was a strong penchant for naming products starting with a "J" to indicate the fact (i.e. JNotepad, JDatabase, etc).

It might actually be a good marketing technique to get other Rust aficionados to try your product. But otherwise, there isn't any real value now that "write once, run anywhere" doesn't just belong to Java anymore.

[arunc]

Even Javascript rode on the Java hype/marketing albeit having no correlation with it.

[gpm]

No real connection, but amusingly I think javascript ended up delivering on java's "run anywhere" pitch at least as well as java did in the end.

I can run javascript in a query to this DB apparently for instance, I can't do that with java.