The JVM is a absolute dream to work with. We run it on a multi node Cassandra EC2 cluster and on tiny embedded devices. And develop for both those platforms on

The JVM is a absolute dream to work with. We run it on a multi node Cassandra EC2 cluster and on tiny embedded devices. And develop for both those platforms on OS X. Java the language is optional - it is simply the lowest common denominator on the JVM.