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Why didn't they? They could have avoided being sued, this again goes to Oracle favor for this lawsuit, they wanted Java's advantages as a virtual machine imple
by amalag 15y ago
Why didn't they? They could have avoided being sued, this again goes to Oracle favor for this lawsuit, they wanted Java's advantages as a virtual machine implementation and not bare metal programming like C/C++.
- krakensden 15y agoOf course, they wrote their own virtual machine, that is totally different from the JVM, so it's unclear to me that they got any advantage from Java's VM implementation. What they really got for free was much of the Java tooling and ecosystem. Which isn't nothing.
- bad_user 15y agoWhat advantages does Java on Android have compared to Objective-C on iOS?