I am starting to like Java

Building abstraction upon abstraction, design pattern upon design pattern, isn't as much of a chore as it felt before.

I feel like I am building a large structure to solve a simple problem, like a rube goldberg machine, and I can revel in the complexity.

There is a certain zen-like quality in chaining seemingly unrelated design patterns together to create a crazy behemoth that still completes the task assigned.

I suppose doing Enterprise™ Java™ Development™ for a living won't be so bad, after all...

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execute them natively

To expand on that slightly, ART uses dex2oat to produce an ELF file.