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Leveraging Java doesn't somehow make it impossible for someone to think about "low-level in-core performance details".

• stephencanon 14y ago
  No one has suggested that it does (at least, no one in this thread). Look, I get that there are people who really like Java, and that you've had to defend it for years against (often bogus) claims that it can't be used for x and y. I am not making any claims of the sort. Here is what I claim, put absolutely precisely so we can stop this nonsense: The intersection of the following sets 1. engineers who I know 2. engineers who think deeply about performance 3. engineers who choose to write Java is empty. That's it. I haven't claimed that writing Java makes you uncool. I haven't claimed that it's impossible to do anything in Java. I haven't claimed that Java is unsuitable for any task. It's entirely possible that I simply don't know the right people, and that even though the intersection of the first two sets is large, it's not large enough. I certainly don't know everyone.