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by pron 4044 days ago
> I find funny that the by investing into JITs instead of optimizing compilers for Java and .NET...

But that's because Java is meant to cover a very wide "middle" -- plus maybe a few corners where possible -- rather than every possible niche.

> Also, thanks to Oracle's disregard by mobile platforms by not providing neither JIT nor AOT compilers for Java

Well, it didn't start out that way, did it? But mobile platforms -- because they're rather tightly controlled -- are, and have always been, much more driven by politics than technical merit.