Then check again, as OpenJDK has a much better ARM support nowadays.

In any case, the beauty of standard Java is that the OpenJDK is not the only option available for targeting ARM, there are other vendors offering Java compliant solutions.

And by being regular Linux distributions, there are also other programming languages available for those that don't like coffee based languages.

> Then check again, as OpenJDK has a much better ARM support nowadays.

I just checked, and it by default ships with Zero in interpreter mode, with Azul's AArch32 work still being pre beta and not even fully integrated into master yet.

> In any case, the beauty of standard Java is that the OpenJDK is not the only option available for targeting ARM, there are other vendors offering Java compliant solutions.

I'm not going to pay for a solution for a $5 chip.

Then you get what you pay for.

Going back to your original comment then, Android supports Java development on this chip much better than OpenJDK.

Except that Android is Google's J++, thus pretty useless to Java developers that care about compliant code and modern Java features.

The market failure of Android Things, while companies like PTC, IBM and Aicas thrive on embedded deployments proves just that.