But with a statically-compiled executable that skirts all the problems with java classpaths and JARs and makes deploys trivial. It's almost like engineers at Google wrote a ton of Java, realized it's faults (along with being sick of paying patent ransoms to Oracle) and wrote a language that was similar but addressed the major pain points for them.
So, a fast cross-platform runtime, simple language with good tooling, and lots of successful projects under its belt? Sounds good to me.