The forcing of OOP is my primary objection. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against OOP and use it when doing GUI wor, but I dislike being forced into OOP al

The forcing of OOP is my primary objection. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against OOP and use it when doing GUI wor, but I dislike being forced into OOP all the time. I also dislike the virtual machine. It's basically a platform just like MS Windows. For these reasons, I tend to use C++ as it allows me to program however I like and doesn't require a pretend computer (AKA virtual machine) to run.