It is pretty much unparalleled in terms of the product of ecosystem size and performance. The other two languages in the top 3 are javascript and python, both have serious deficits regarding parallelism. As seen, it is a pretty strong contender in performance alone as well, with perhaps the best observability, and it has a well-defined execution semantics, even regarding erroneous execution — while any sort of memory error in a lower level language may silently corrupt the heap after which no assumption can hold regarding program state.

Also, primitive-only java programming is probably no worse than similarly low-level C/C++/etc.