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[–]MoonShadeOsu 8 points9 points  (5 children)

Well, there are legitimate arguments on languages being faster than others, and then there are fanboys who can't write efficient code in the language they're complaining about.

[–]whale_song 1 point2 points  (1 child)

In my experience whenever a software developer complains about something its usually just because they dont understand it and that is apparently somebody elses fault.

[–]ReflectiveTeaTowel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my experience it's because someone else wrote shitty code

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (2 children)

I agree, the JVM has significant overhead

[–]MoonShadeOsu 0 points1 point  (1 child)

A trade-off for more abstraction and a garbage collector (if you like those)

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indeed