>it's a result of thousands of people spending millions of hours on complex problems finding that certain methods work well when your source code base becomes t

>it's a result of thousands of people spending millions of hours on complex problems finding that certain methods work well when your source code base becomes too large for simplistic methods. Sure. But how well does it work? I think it's obvious right now that the JVM is a fantastic piece of engineering, and java took us far, but that it's aging and inflexible. Here's my problem with java explained succinctly in anther thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4939624 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4939624