Maybe the typical JVM bashing.

In most enterprises, regardless what we think about the JVM, it is still quite healthy.

For my part, I don't trust Oracle to be a good steward for Java. Who knows - time will tell.

It's not all gloom and doom though; Attila Szegedi is at Oracle now, working on Nashorn - something exciting for Java 8.

Unfortunately for Oracle, Java represents a genie that's out of the metaphorical bottle. They have the privilege to be its benevolent steward, however if they keep pushing for control in the face of its community, they'll lose whatever control they have left.

The recent lawsuit kind of highlights that. Google is riding on years of development and refinement of Java IDEs and on mountains of available open-source libraries. They jump-started an Android community from zero by building an alternative VM for targeting Java source code, while giving the finger to Sun/Oracle and their licensing.

And I don't think they are so stupid as to not realize this.

What I miss in Java is the ability to compile directly to native code as part of the official SDK, instead of using expensive third party compilers.

The problem I see with Oracle is that if they push too much the community, companies might abandon it the same way they did with Delphi when Borland did too many mistakes. On the other hand, I can speak from my experience in the enterprise world, corporations love Oracle.

So he left Twitter. I didn't realize that. Exciting indeed.