It seems like a lot of people were simply unwilling to support java. Bundling the execution enviroment with such an un-fun language was probably a mistake. Not

It seems like a lot of people were simply unwilling to support java. Bundling the execution enviroment with such an un-fun language was probably a mistake. Not to mention the patents and oracle in general. It was before my time, but I don't imagine the open source community was ever going to really embace it.