Lead dev here. A significant portion of the JDK and the JVM is written in Java. There is much that happens in the JVM were gc is a good thing. Classes are const

Lead dev here. A significant portion of the JDK and the JVM is written in Java. There is much that happens in the JVM were gc is a good thing. Classes are constantly being instantiated and then discarded. Having those discarded classes GC'd is a benefit indeed.