I think these conversations can be misleading. It's all about tools and frameworks. There was a small window in time where I spent writing mobile apps in JavaFX

I think these conversations can be misleading. It's all about tools and frameworks. There was a small window in time where I spent writing mobile apps in JavaFX - and it was a nightmare. No support for different phone sizes or hardware. Now here I am using java to do the same thing on Android and it's a much smoother process. Android has great frameworks in place to solve the problems I had with JavaFX j2me mobile apps. Here is where some people jump to conclusions, "JavaFX is a bad language;" however, my struggles with mobile where not related to the language but rather the tools and frameworks.