What's fantastic about Java is not the Java language but that you now get a JVM for just about every platform. You have Java, Groovy, Scala, Closure, etc. all t

What's fantastic about Java is not the Java language but that you now get a JVM for just about every platform. You have Java, Groovy, Scala, Closure, etc. all these programming languages you could pick from and you get cross-platform support for free as well as being able to use all the thousands of Java libraries that are already out there. It's a powerful combination.