Your description of the JVM makes you look like a caveman, or at least a philistine. A caveman with a good sense of mass, admittedly, but a caveman nonetheless.
You can. But let's face it - in a language not meant to express things as complex as human thoughts, but rather logic, you don't need or want ridiculous shit - which is why comparing it to English doesn't make sense.The JVM can be fast - I'm not saying Java is *always* slow - usually it's up to the dev - but it's bloated and heavy as hell. It takes you away from the machine and basically puts you in an environment that is far from the machine, which I have a strong distaste for, I will admit. I want to be able to at least use intrinsics to make the compiler emit certain instructions, if I can't inline assembly myself, in cases requiring extreme performance. I feel that Java is a scripting language that wants to pretend it's okay for performance-critical things, or large projects that are sensitive to bloat, but it's not. If I wanted to whip something up quiick to run on any platform, sure - but if I want real control over what's being executed, which is what I write, as a developer, I want to use something that gives me that.
Your feelings deceive yourselfe, the java compiler is called javac https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_compiler
The only drawbacks on using Java are, my humble opinion: Adds another dependancy. The lesser, the better.
Oh, and R.I.P SUN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems
