Same experience with doing database system programming in Java. The number of performance issues caused by GC and the amount of code complication introduced in

Same experience with doing database system programming in Java. The number of performance issues caused by GC and the amount of code complication introduced in order to avoid them is mind-blowing. We’re managing memory manually in critical parts. But Java ergonomics around manual memory management (cake off-heap) is just terrible. There are moments I think I’d be more productive in pure C because of that. Not C++, not Rust, but pure C.