Once upon a time Java GC was truly awful. Early versions of java lacked even generational garbage collection, meaning your app would simply hang for a few secon

Once upon a time Java GC was truly awful. Early versions of java lacked even generational garbage collection, meaning your app would simply hang for a few seconds every now and then while GC happened. On top of this, the performance gap compared to native code was much larger in the early days. This gave java a reputation for sluggish UIs which would mysteriously hang. In an era where new CPU generations provided meaningful performance improvements to client applications, why would a developer commit to a platform which rolled back the clock by 2 CPU generations?