Your last sentence feels ironic: the JVM is itself complex considering its essence is that the JVM and javac combine to provice the experience of nicer-than-C++

Your last sentence feels ironic: the JVM is itself complex considering its essence is that the JVM and javac combine to provice the experience of nicer-than-C++ compilation to a mid 90s Unix, though is almost always running on Unix-equivalent OSes, so kind of ridiculous. I agree wholeheartedly with the rest, and am hopeful for things like a Clojure->native compiler, Scala-native, and of course Swift and Rust...even Go.