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It's unfortunate, but people's associations with Java the lang bleed into their beliefs about the JVM, one of the most heavily-optimized VMs on the planet. The
by KingMob 7mo ago
It's unfortunate, but people's associations with Java the lang bleed into their beliefs about the JVM, one of the most heavily-optimized VMs on the planet.
There's some historical cruft (especially the memory model), but picking the JVM as a target is a great decision (especially with Graal offering even more options).
- pjmlp 7mo agoExactly, especially because there isn't THE JVM, rather a bunch of versions each with their own approaches to GC, JIT, JIT caches, ahead of time compilation. Only .NET follows up on it at scale.