"If Oracle is 'poisoning Java', Kotlin's not the answer." It's not Java, and at the same time it is. It's 'far enough away' to protect them legally, but close

"If Oracle is 'poisoning Java', Kotlin's not the answer." It's not Java, and at the same time it is. It's 'far enough away' to protect them legally, but close enough to leverage the ecosystem. Without that, it'd be very hard to attract new devs, Also, Android uses a kind of JVM, they've invested a lot. Oracle can only poison Java they'll have a harder time poisoning the JVM etc. - there's just too much dependent there. If Oracle goes nuclear with Java, Google has the wherewithal to fork their own version of the JVM. It the right move, pragmatically. Remember, Java is a very useful thing and especially the JVM.