Great writeup, especially that you are really fair to both and make good statements.

> Java has a lot going for it, and I probably will keep using it for some time.

Me, too. And I will always keep an eye on rust, especially since I also use Scala. ;) However the only downside of rust, is that crates.io doesn't has so powerful things like Java has in maven. However comparing Libraries of a 20 year old language vs a "some" year old language is somewhat unfair. What I would like would be Java <-> Rust FFI.