[coldtea]

>But it has and will continue to use Java the language, not some language based off Java, as well.

Java is not the syntax, though, it's the whole specificication -- down to the bytecode.

Google just borrowed the syntax (and API).

(As did other people and projects who did "clean room" clones of Java, while not calling their product/project Java).

>And in fact Oracle's lawsuit is about neither the language or the runtime, it's about the APIs.

Yeah, that's what I wrote above: "That's just at the superficial API level though, which Oracle contested in court".

[cwyers]

I mean, up until a year or two ago, Google just shipped Oracle's javac compiler with its Android build toolchain. This makes about as much sense as saying that if you use musl libc instead of glibc that you're using a different language.