I was more claiming that the JVM is going obsolete, not Java. The whole idea behind the JVM is platform abstraction...and it worked perfectly fine insofar as th

I was more claiming that the JVM is going obsolete, not Java. The whole idea behind the JVM is platform abstraction...and it worked perfectly fine insofar as the platform being abstracted had a CPU, at least X memory, a disk drive, and at least a basic OS. Which was fine for a while, but now we're seeing an explosion of different platforms with wildly different capabilities, and the JVM is just not up to the task. That isn't to say that Java isn't, but it does mean that you need specialty compilers, libraries, tools, and infrastructure for specialty targets.