I find failure to be more fatal on the JVM. That's neither a bug nor a feature, it's just what it is. For example, BEAM puts the process call stack on the heap

I find failure to be more fatal on the JVM. That's neither a bug nor a feature, it's just what it is. For example, BEAM puts the process call stack on the heap, so you don't need to tune them separately. You won't hit a stack overflow, you'll just run out of memory. Many, many characteristics like that exist. I prefer a working slow system over a broken system, but I fully understand the preference for loud failures.