One of the anecdotes I keep in my back pocket about how anything can be funded by the military was a compilers professor whose research on real-time Java was fu

One of the anecdotes I keep in my back pocket about how anything can be funded by the military was a compilers professor whose research on real-time Java was funded by the military. Apparently some drone control software was written in Java, and having your drone use stop-the-world garbage collection is bad in a number of ways.