I believe that PG is totally right in this one. Android uses java not because it has been decided by the hackers but because of a top-down decision from a big

I believe that PG is totally right in this one. Android uses java not because it has been decided by the hackers but because of a top-down decision from a big organization. It made strategic and economic sense for them. All big organizations love java and most programmers are not hacker geniuses, they just want to pay the rent. So most programmers(in number) use java or C#. I use Java a lot, but is so bloated, slow and "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." But it brought VMs to the table and that was a good contribution as it is really useful for some applications. Now that you could do that on C or C++ with LLVM but is easier on java. For a simple proof of concept I will use java, or python, when I 'm serious I will use c, c++ or obj c.