Naive (and mostly ignorant) programmers make a habit of sh*tting on the JVM and the Java platform in general.
My usual response regarding the merit of the JVM is this: there is a reason there's jvm on the server, desktop, on your phone, on the rovers on mars and god knows on how many mission critical systems.
And no it isn't because of great marketing, which is another common and lame response from JVM detractors.
The JVM is an impressive engineering effort and the eco-system spawned by it is currently unrivaled.
With the new trend of porting other languages (ruby,python,js..etc) to it, the I see the JVM as the middleware over which most future software would be built.
My usual response regarding the merit of the JVM is this: there is a reason there's jvm on the server, desktop, on your phone, on the rovers on mars and god knows on how many mission critical systems.
And no it isn't because of great marketing, which is another common and lame response from JVM detractors.
The JVM is an impressive engineering effort and the eco-system spawned by it is currently unrivaled.
With the new trend of porting other languages (ruby,python,js..etc) to it, the I see the JVM as the middleware over which most future software would be built.