I think the rise of containers and being able to compile and run natively has eliminated the argument that would favor the JVM. It's so easy to fully control your dev and deployment environments now using Docker images and to me, that's a far better solution. tl;dr -- containers eliminate Java long term.

> tl;dr -- containers eliminate Java long term

Why can't they co-exist?

> has eliminated the argument that would favor the JVM

This complaint is taking technology definitions too literally. I doubt new adopters of Java or the JVM are really going on about that now. It's more been about the ecosystem, the maturity, etc.