According to comment in this same thread by a member of the Wave team, the problem is that they used Java the way it is supposed to be used, and that is why the

According to comment in this same thread by a member of the Wave team, the problem is that they used Java the way it is supposed to be used, and that is why they ended up with over a million lines of idiomatic Java code when the same project would have been under a hundred thousands if written in another language. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3102493 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3102493