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This was my main thought. Maybe all that effort expended on managing the runtime could be aggregated into a unified effort in a more cohesive (to your goals) language.

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IntelliJ had been based on java for twenty years. It has worked well as a mainstream cross platform application that has been around before, and outlived, other approaches.

Moving to another language would surely be many more orders of magnitude than plugging in a new JIT?

Lets see how far they actually manage to go with Kotlin/Native, they seem to be trying to make Kotlin the new Delphi.

I don't have any hopes for it besides Android, which is working thanks Google gatekeeping Java updates and pushing Kotlin instead.

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