[djanogo]

The world biggest deployment of Java API is android, I wish Google had just bought out Java instead of copying it's API's, fighting it in court, and now using kotlin (with it's _IMO_ ugly syntactic sugar) to avoid legal issues.

[pron]

> The world biggest deployment of Java API is android

Not even close. The entire mobile space — Android and iOS combined — is drastically smaller than just Java alone (not counting Android). You can confirm this by going to job websites that allow you to analyse their postings. Java, together with its sister leading languages, JavaScript and Python, is so popular that it's in a completely different ballgame than most languages.

[SemanticStrengh]

It's only a matter of time before the amount of bullshit at Google reach a too strong threshold and are obligated to switch to full openjdk vs their abandonware. Unfortunately they are so mediocre they have made an incompatible bytecode so they will need some patches/translation layers atop jdk. BTW they are claiming JDK 11 support for Android 13. Of course this is a lie that only apply to the stdlib and not runtime support such as e.g constant dynamics.

[uluyol]

Why would Oracle sell Java to Google? I'm pretty sure that a main attraction for them in buying it was the possibility of collecting $$$ from Google.

[vips7L]

I believe OP means that Google had the opportunity to buy Sun but didn't.