IMO terrible Java code is partially due to how good the JVM is. Performance is within spitting distance of native code, so people can do TERRIBLE things and it

IMO terrible Java code is partially due to how good the JVM is. Performance is within spitting distance of native code, so people can do TERRIBLE things and it won't tank performance. Endless abstraction, loading giant things into RAM, looping over every item in huge arrays. Blocking server threads for minutes at a time. In most languages you would be punished severely with awful performance or OOM. Java chugs along until things get horrifically bad.