You know, the alternatives might not be great, but between Go and JavaScript V8, I bet Google could pull Java out of Android. It might take a few years, but it's possible. Then again, Oracle is trying to get Google to pay the $6 billion it paid for Sun.<p>Google should have just bought Sun, sold off the hardware business to say IBM, and kept Java and the patents.<p>In this case I think the nerds at Google were too clever for their own good and it's going to bite them in the long run.