It's important to distinguish Java the language from Java the framework-encrusted "enterprise" tool. Java as a language isn't so bad. Objective-C and Java each

It's important to distinguish Java the language from Java the framework-encrusted "enterprise" tool. Java as a language isn't so bad. Objective-C and Java each have their own strengths and weaknesses. For example, my Java code dealing with collections is much cleaner than comparable code in Obj-C because I don't have manually box & unbox primitives with incredibly verbose messages. The JVM also gives you alternatives. Currently none of the non-Java JVM languages is great for Android but Jetbrains' Kotlin project is looking very promising: http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/ http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/