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Java was created by Sun. Oracle bought them mainly to sue Google. Kotlin from jetbrains is where developer mindshare is today ;)

• pier25 7y ago
  But Kotlin does run on Oracle's JVM, no?
  • jryan49 7y ago
    Runs on OpenJDK as well...
    • icebraining 7y ago
      That's Oracle's too.
      • lma21 7y ago
        Really? In what way does it differ from Oracle Java SE ?
        • geodel 7y ago
          Since Java 11 only in commercial support model. Code bits are about same.
        • __HYde 7y ago
          In that it is GPL+Link Exception licensed. The copyright still belongs to Oracle. See this[0] example: > Copyright (c) 1997, 2007, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. > This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only [0] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/file/tip/src/share/classes/java/util/List.java http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/file/tip/src/share/...
      • jryan49 7y ago
        But it's open source. GPL. And it's not just Oracle that contributes to Java... (OpenJDK and Java Community, Red Hat, Azul Systems, IBM, Apple Inc, SAP SE)... We've had Amazon and AdoptOpenJDK compile and distribute their own binaries as well. We could fork it if we had to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK