"Mike says Java has a number of issues that hold it back, such as the perception that the Java Platform is overly complex"
Not to mention slow. Despite improvements in the VM, being slow is still a #1 reason people cite when they decide not to use it. Whether it's really still true or not, I don't know, but they *never* got rid of their reputation for being slow.
The question now is, what happens to all of that Java code still out there? Java has a huge installed base, and there's a lot of apps that use it.
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