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...

>>22
JVM bytecode is actually retarded, slow, and hard to optimize. It's also a stack machine, which while it was cool in the sixties, he's a lot of problems. DVM is a register machine. With that, many instructions for the JVM became irrelevant because you got it for free with registers. Overall though, Dalvik bytecode is much closer to the bare metal, and doesn't contain many of the pointless abstractions the JBC spec has, for example.

>>24
Not quite. Everything is compiled into a single file for Android, comparable to linking I guess, rather than .class file pollution.