Am I missing something here, when was this about Java and phasing it out of Android? I don't think that's a likely plan but if you have any evidence to the contrary I would love to see it. Java is pretty pretty central to Android to think that it's somehow going to be "phased out", that would be more like destroying the entire platform.
I know everyone loves to hate on Java, but I'm always amazed by some of the wacky things people say ...
I really don't hate Java at all. It's had a generally beneficial impact in all sorts of places. But I wonder with the change-over in leadership for Android[1] if we aren't seeing signals that Google wants to consolidate all of its apps under Chrome. One possible motivation is that they may not want to leave a core technology under the control of Oracle forever.
Maybe a new virtual machine along with a high-level language will magically materialize out of thin air? GoVM perhaps, that was secretly being developed all this time?
I know everyone loves to hate on Java, but I'm always amazed by some of the wacky things people say ...