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Re: Java environment. Because Java is a huge chunk of the job market (at least in the Sacramento area), not because it's a "language of choice" . Actually, th
by Roboprog 10y ago
Re: Java environment.
Because Java is a huge chunk of the job market (at least in the Sacramento area), not because it's a "language of choice" . Actually, the JVM is a nice thing, even if the Java language is primitive and verbose.
Too bad the jFoo alternate language implementations haven't got more traction yet. (jRuby, Jython, Nashorn, et al)
- pmontra 10y agoI can tell you why, speaking about jRuby. Because it takes so long to start and you feel it whenever you run the tests. It gets a little better if you disable the JIT compiler and so... in dev mode, where developers spend all their life, it's not faster than RMI. Because it used to support only the syntax of older versions of Ruby. Basically devs get all the pain of the JVM and none of the gains. Guess what they want to use? A customer of mine asked me how to migrate from jRuby to MRI because devs where having problems. I explained and suggested they could try using MRI in dev and keep jRuby in production. They're a JVM shop. I'll ask them what they decided to do.