Why do you think Google picked Java in the first place (and not a "really" open language like C++, Javascript, or Python)? To appeal to as many developers as po

Why do you think Google picked Java in the first place (and not a "really" open language like C++, Javascript, or Python)? To appeal to as many developers as possible on Day 1. Further, Google as a company seems to have drunk the Java Kool-Aid (e.g., Closure compiler is written in Java, GWT uses Java as source language, and I hear Java is one of the three "blessed" languages (others being C++ and Python)). Personally, I think C++ would have been a better choice for the first project, and Python for the second one. It's highly unlikely they're going to stop using Java on Android.