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> Particularly, people were VERY critical of how slow java was and how much memory it consumed. To be fair, those were totally valid criticisms before HotSpot
by hn_throwaway_99 2y ago
> Particularly, people were VERY critical of how slow java was and how much memory it consumed.
To be fair, those were totally valid criticisms before HotSpot got really good. IIRC, way back in the day Corel said they were going all in on Java for their software suite, and they eventually abandoned it due to performance.
- hinkley 2y agoIt’s possible to write fast Java and one of the cornerstones of my early career was proving it. But I’d also spent a lot of time thinking about performance already before finding Java. A lot of people fully embraced the abstract nature of it while I kept it at arm’s length. I fixed a lot of really dumb mistakes, and a lot of things that were subtly wrong but with large consequences.