>>54porting features also costs time/money
your freetard functional language will never create the economic impetus for this to happen. thus the optimizations will live and die in the JVM, because trillions of dollars depend on the JVM and its continued performance. hundreds of people are paid full time to work on the JVM, so it will always be a step ahead of any copycats. the only thing depends on Your Pet Bullshit Freetard-lang is some abandoned github repos that do hello world.