Re: Haha
"It was *good enough* (and still is - VM technology is very smart these days) "
Pfft, sure, thats why on the last java project I was involved in the VM reserved over 100MB just to start up and load the program.
"consistent, neatly sandboxed and supported by tools that were an order of magnitude better than the command line torture inflicted on C++ devs."
Have you ever actually programmed in C++? I have my doubts. And there was nothing stopping google creating a C++ sound and visual API specifically for android plus an IDE. Which they had to do anyway for java. So none of your arguments stack up.
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