[tdbgamer]

While I agree with you that the JVM is great, I think most people that don't like it really just hate Oracle. It's not really a technical argument as much as it is philosophical. I don't really care either way, but I can see why people would mistrust Oracle knowing their history.

[jwr]

I understand the sentiment, Oracle is a terrible company and I don't like it either. But at this point we have the OpenJDK and you can use the JVM without caring about Oracle at all.

[ilikehurdles]

I switched to openJDK implementations after JDK 8 and lately that seems to be the way the entire community is going, due to Oracle’s new licensing restrictions.

[balfirevic]

I remember seeing complaints about Clojure running on JVM even before Oracle bought Sun.

[pjmlp]

Yeah, because Sun never did wrong stuff and everyone was queuing up to buy it.