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Doesn't make sense to replace Java with another JVM language. If you're thinking about the problems they've had with Oracle, then it's not Java the language tha

Doesn't make sense to replace Java with another JVM language. If you're thinking about the problems they've had with Oracle, then it's not Java the language that's causing problems, but rather Java's standard library and their VM that's meant to be not-quite-a-JVM-but-close-enough. As a standard, a common denominator, Java the language is a good choice because it is popular. Other languages running on top of the JVM can be used on top of Android as well, mostly anyway, at least if you refrain from generating and interpreting bytecode at runtime.

seunosewa 12y ago
The JVM is the best thing about Java. It's really good at optimizing statically typed code. The problem is the language and culture of verbosity that it spawned. Alternate languages are great but may not go far without Oracle's support; Oracle would rather add features to Java than seriously support other languages since they have so much code written in Java already and control it. And the new features added to Java will clash with features added to the other languages when Java was more primitive.