Raw pointers, manual memory management, and "what you see is roughly what's executed in assembly" is very helpful for a wide variety of performance sensitive ta

Raw pointers, manual memory management, and "what you see is roughly what's executed in assembly" is very helpful for a wide variety of performance sensitive tasks, there is a whole world out there beyond CRUD apps. There are many trivial optimizations you can't do without writing native code. Writing any performance sensitive code in a high level language is like playing the telephone game. What's funny is that high-level languages develop a culture of not caring about performance, which makes what could be a mild problem, much much worse. Java is actually a pretty fast language(for most purposes), you wouldn't know it from 9 out of 10 desktop java applications I've used.