Inclined
When reading the article, I was moved to feel the sentiment that sometimes apathy and short-sightedness are good things.
Java seems to be on the way out in browsers, as has been noted here. Whatever its merits as a language with an associated P-code level to give it greater universality, there are a great many cross-platform languages out there. Of course other languages can be compiled to run on the JVM, but specifically because that is owned and controlled by Oracle, in many circumstances people have a motive to avoid it.
Thus, it's very hard for me to see Java as something to get or remain excited about. So I ended up being rather baffled and unsympathetic from the article; Oracle is unlikely to change its ways, and I fail to see why trying to achieve this is worth the effort. Of course, writing yet another alternative cross-platform language would perhaps be only slightly less unhelpful.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
