The whole article could have just been this: > Another important factor is that the team of engineers building the first version of Picnic’s platform already h

The whole article could have just been this: > Another important factor is that the team of engineers building the first version of Picnic’s platform already had ample experience using Java and the JVM. And the author of the blog post is a book author on the language and Java Champion, so uhh, yeah, it would be very weird not to go with Java in this case.