Now that it's absolutely trivial to distribute, developers can count on the same code base everywhere. Kind of like how everyone can count on GCC. I don't wri

Now that it's absolutely trivial to distribute, developers can count on the same code base everywhere. Kind of like how everyone can count on GCC. I don't write much Java now but at one time I supported a database library on runtimes from sun, ibm, apple, microsoft and the blackdown guys. It was crazy. Java and Python have been around for about the same amount of time. Python has about 5 different VM implementations. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines Java has 10 times that number.