Except for "Java applets are dead", everything else you wrote is wrong :-) Android is not moving to Kotlin: Kotlin is simply supported as a first class languag

Except for "Java applets are dead", everything else you wrote is wrong :-) Android is not moving to Kotlin: Kotlin is simply supported as a first class language in Android. Most of Android itself is written in Java and while it's clear that an increasing number of Android developers are switching to Kotlin, Java will never stop being supported on Android. The legal battle between Google and Oracle has nothing to with Google using Java. You can use Java for free and without any licensing concerns (use Open JDK). C++ is less portable than Java precisely because Java runs on a JVM.