Comment by arkad

At our company, most of the greenfield projects (with a high-performance profile) are in Java. So, for what our anecdotal example is worth, I can confirm that Java is used for new projects. IMHO, Java fell a bit behind with the rise of the microservices/lambda paradigm because of its memory footprint and slow start. On the other hand, it's an amazing piece of technology, and I would expect that with ahead-of-time compilation and JVM snapshots, it will become more appealing for these use cases.