>I think it is also very hard to make a performance argument in 2020. I think it is very EASY to make a performance argument in 2020. In every domain, from my

>I think it is also very hard to make a performance argument in 2020. I think it is very EASY to make a performance argument in 2020. In every domain, from my phone, to my desktop pc, to our huge AWS servers at work, I encounter software that is slow. We struggle with our C/C+ database at work running on top of a C/C++ operating system. We can't buy a bigger server and it isn't fast enough to handle the load we get recently recently due to covid. You think I should be happy to incur GC overhead in both the OS and Database? No way! That would cost us a lot of money, and require a more complex architecture. (which also costs money) On my desktop and phone I encounter applications that are annoyingly slow to start up, to compile, all kinds of things. The last thing I want is JVM or .NET runtime overhead occuring even at the level of my operating system, device drivers, etc adding to that. CPU cache space is precious, the low level things that everything else runs upon should be as efficient as possible.