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So JVM is not heavy compared to even heavier stuff. However compared to Go it is quite heavy in term of disk, RAM usage, and deployment.
by geodel 10y ago
So JVM is not heavy compared to even heavier stuff. However compared to Go it is quite heavy in term of disk, RAM usage, and deployment.
- omginternets 10y agoExactly. I see where the author is going with his article (and I think some of the points he raises are actually quite valid), but he's playing both sides of the "heavier than what?" point. Yes, the JVM is slimmer than many interpreted languages with external dependencies (Python, Ruby, etc), and yes it can be slimmed down through manual labor, but no it is not something you can call "not heavy" with a straight face.