The performance advantages of C++ over a recent JVM are pretty minor when the price is blowing up randomly. I wasted years on teams trying to make native code n

The performance advantages of C++ over a recent JVM are pretty minor when the price is blowing up randomly. I wasted years on teams trying to make native code not suck, and only once did I witness as much as a single month of uptime achieved after heroic effort. Now I view manual allocation and pointer arithmetic as a form of nerd sniping—just because it's incredibly hard to get 100.0% right doesn't mean you're actually accomplishing much by doing so.