The JVM is still a more performant VM. And it does still have a lot more options for varying use cases with a big selection of GCs as well as custom VMs that le

The JVM is still a more performant VM. And it does still have a lot more options for varying use cases with a big selection of GCs as well as custom VMs that let's you do real time programming. But as others pointed out, Android is not built on the JVM, but on Java. Java != JVM. And the CLR is a pretty great VM too. It's performance isn't as great as the JVM, but it's darn close, while also offering a lot of ease of use over the JVM.