Yea I wasn’t a fan of it initially coming from C++ and C# but it is growing on me. There’s a lot of neat concepts. I just wish it’d allow me to put curly braces on the next line.

The JVM isn’t free. It was a simple data collection device that interfaces with a sensor which ideally doesn’t need maintenance as long as possible. Something light written in C is more than enough.

Battery life is a reason. I’ve had clients come to me complaining their solution from another vendor didn’t last very long. Turns out it was running Java on an embedded device.

Fair, I do think it does show that there might be a market for it though.

Worked fine for the 3DS, not everyone has large hands.

And it’s so good that Kotlin adopted them too in their journey to fix Java.

Funny you list both C# and Typescript because the lead architect of C# also worked on Typescript.