I recall early Java having appetite for memory that hardware often could not satisfy (on a x86 desktop, it is of course still true for many microcontrollers).

I recall early Java having appetite for memory that hardware often could not satisfy (on a x86 desktop, it is of course still true for many microcontrollers). Also I read a story of a developer resisting move from hand-written assemby to C, to which company owner replied "you can write your assembly, but not for my money". So nothing new, though some languages get a lot more resistance than others.