You're building strawmen. Nobody is bashing the infrastructure. As in, nobody is bashing the JVM. They're (we're) bashing Java-the-language. 1. The first JVM w

You're building strawmen. Nobody is bashing the infrastructure. As in, nobody is bashing the JVM. They're (we're) bashing Java-the-language. 1. The first JVM was surely not written in Java. Therefore JVM != Java 2. A JVM can be written in any language. Therefore JVM != Java You could write a JVM in brainfuck if you wanted to. That doesn't mean Kotlin isn't a much more sane language than brainfuck.