Because people equate startup time with speed? Seriously, Java was never slow compared to the things that I actually saw people comparing it to. I've seen peop

Because people equate startup time with speed? Seriously, Java was never slow compared to the things that I actually saw people comparing it to. I've seen people pick Javascript over Java, because of performance and it just made no sense. Notably that incident was over 10 years ago, when JS was actually pretty slow relative to today. I can't think of a time when Python, PHP, Perl, or Ruby were faster than Java and yet I saw people acting as if they were.