The challenges in implementing your own VM and implementing a dynamic layer on top of the JVM are entirely different. It's not like moving from one distro to another, it's like moving from Linux to a custom RTOS and expecting your existing kernel people to do the job as well as existing RTOS developers.
Like I say this is a problem across the IT industry, hiring managers want buzzword-compliance with the very latest thing, and never mind that the actual value in any IT organization is in the people that know the business and have a track record of identifying and solving problems in it.
The job market's not great right now but individuals have longer memories than organizations, and companies that show no loyalty to their people now are going to pay over the odds for talent when the market picks up.
It's a completely different problem set, a completely foreign codebase, and a completely different platform entirely. In addition, it's not their baby; would you like it if your company decided you're going to work on a competing project to the one you founded, while you're presumably working on your project in your spare time?
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The challenges in implementing your own VM and implementing a dynamic layer on top of the JVM are entirely different. It's not like moving from one distro to another, it's like moving from Linux to a custom RTOS and expecting your existing kernel people to do the job as well as existing RTOS developers.
They're certainly smart enough to, so why not?
Like I say this is a problem across the IT industry, hiring managers want buzzword-compliance with the very latest thing, and never mind that the actual value in any IT organization is in the people that know the business and have a track record of identifying and solving problems in it.
The job market's not great right now but individuals have longer memories than organizations, and companies that show no loyalty to their people now are going to pay over the odds for talent when the market picks up.
It's a completely different problem set, a completely foreign codebase, and a completely different platform entirely. In addition, it's not their baby; would you like it if your company decided you're going to work on a competing project to the one you founded, while you're presumably working on your project in your spare time?
They made a perfectly logical decision.