>If I have to have a deep understanding of the JVM's implementation details to do anything non-trivial I may as well just stick with C. The difference is that

>If I have to have a deep understanding of the JVM's implementation details to do anything non-trivial I may as well just stick with C. The difference is that you have to have a deep understanding of the details to do even trivial things in C. So, no, one might not "just as well" stick with C. Except if you want to manage memory manually all the time, and dangle pointers around...