> For a bad language it sure is taking a long time to die

Greenfield projects are not abundant within any organization, thus developers invest their lives extending the infrastucture. Consequently, older technologies tend to stay, particularly when they are proven and actually perform well.

And adding to that, just because some tech is new it doesn't mean it's any good. History is packed with the dead husks of many latest and greatest technologies that died off.

I don't think the JVM will be going anyway anytime soon.

Languages don't really die. Especially not popular ones.