But, being a JVM language, it's still stuck with all of the Java shortcomings that I had listed before: Achieving a decent level of type safety is impossible, the FFI is still a pain to use, and you've got to go through contortions to get really good numeric performance. Because all of those problems are characteristics of the JVM's run-time environment, not the language you're using to target it.

The only KVM in town is Android.