I wish folks would come up with something actually new...

Thank you for breaking this down so eloquently. I could not have said it better myself.

This is the best review of the model I purchased: https://betanews.com/2018/05/0... I havenâ(TM)t received it so I donâ(TM)t quite know how well Iâ(TM)ll like it, but assembly and shipping were pretty fast! And they were quite responsive when I asked how things were going.. ;-)

Exactly what I just did this past weekend. :-(

I wouldn't know how to validate the "Almost all" claim. ClojureScript, which is not run on the JVM, but only compiled by it, is becoming extremely popular. And almost every popular library I've depended on in my projects has had recent or not-so-recent updates to be ClojureScript-compatible. I'd count that as making a leap, but you are right, it is still coupled to the JVM in some way.

I believe Clojure, itself, in the form of ClojureScript, is an example of a language that made the leap from the JVM to other platforms. There is even a quite strong push to make libraries portable across both platforms since there are some subtle differences. For more check out https://github.com/clojure/clo...

For those Googling Shure Ec2, try E2C instead. I have a pair of E3C headphones and agree that they are excellent at blocking out noise.