Dunno if I'd write games in Java since it's very geared toward server coding and the clientside/gui-side of things is all but gone from the language, but Java's

Dunno if I'd write games in Java since it's very geared toward server coding and the clientside/gui-side of things is all but gone from the language, but Java's GC is a lot more sophisticated today than it was 15-20 years ago. You realistically won't see GC pauses at all unless you're doing something very strange. The memory consumption has also gone down considerably.