Java is used in the back end of several high performance web applications as well. Twitter uses JVM and so does The Guardian, for example. Not sure what your po

Java is used in the back end of several high performance web applications as well. Twitter uses JVM and so does The Guardian, for example. Not sure what your point is. Your criticism of Java for being slow is 1) very 2006 and 2) incorrectly based on desktop apps which require JVM restart and warmup time before they get going. Put Java on the server and see the speeds. Using spark as your web framework, it's possible to achieve rates of over 40k requests per second ( I've seen claims of 160k requests per second after sufficient JVM warmup).