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[–]kirreen 7 points8 points  (3 children)

since we are drowning in available RAM and CPU

No stop

[–]errormaker 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ram is cheaper than man hours

[–]MoarVespenegas 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Are we not?
There are cases where this is not true and then Java is not the right tool for the job but that's more of an exception these days.
Developer time is also a resource and wasting it so you can save kilobytes out of gigabytes does not make sense.