JVM may be crap (or not), but it is widely deployed. In other words, widely available. And performance is not that bad, really. Except for the startup time, it

JVM may be crap (or not), but it is widely deployed. In other words, widely available. And performance is not that bad, really. Except for the startup time, it is better than most other languages, not just scripting languages. There has been a lot of effort invested in making JVM better.