Yes, exactly, which makes the claim even more baffling.
Sure, they can just reimplement all their Java dependencies, but if they have to implement e.g. collections anyway, they could just have designed a better API in the first place, instead of being stuck with Java collections on platforms that don't even run Java.
Sure, they can just reimplement all their Java dependencies, but if they have to implement e.g. collections anyway, they could just have designed a better API in the first place, instead of being stuck with Java collections on platforms that don't even run Java.