You know what has become the "Best Java" for me? Lua. With the LuaVM, you really can fulfill the absolute promise of 'write codebase once, run anywhere', wher

You know what has become the "Best Java" for me? Lua. With the LuaVM, you really can fulfill the absolute promise of 'write codebase once, run anywhere', where "anywhere = wherever you've got your LIBS+LuaVM host code running", of course. You can do it in a compact, highly performant manner. One host binary for each supported platform, much work at the vendor layer to adopt to a common Lua dictionary/table, and the rest is .. as they say .. fat city. All nice app case logic in a comfortable, friendly language. Java long ago become an unweildy beast replete with inane dependencies and insensitive amounts of hassle to get things in and out, whereas with the Lua stack, it seems, one need only know how to do things at least with a C stack, first, to gain immense benefit. I daily dream, in my idle moments, of a complete OS based on a selected set of normal/plain-ol' /usr/lib C-libraries, but booting directly to Lua, for GUI and all higher-layer goodness. Such fancies are already tickled in places like LOAD81 and MOAI, and so on, and I think sort of prove the point, a little, that the VM is no longer something a vendor controls, but rather .. the developer.