Yes we have. The majority of all commercial programmers work with web sites or web applications in which VM:s reign supreme. But for hobbyist work, it is diffe

Yes we have. The majority of all commercial programmers work with web sites or web applications in which VM:s reign supreme. But for hobbyist work, it is different. Free software developers are seeking universality more than anything else. They want as many people as possible to be able to use their code, be able to read it and contribute to it. VM:s hinder universality. For example, if you write an image processing library in C then everyone can theoretically use it (assuming bindings are non-trivial to write). But if the same library is written in a VM language, then it is only usable to developers who are using that platform. It's like a curse.