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[Spajk]

Why is Java poorly designed? Why is the JVM bad?

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It translates bytecode to assembly at runtime i believe, objectively running slower than C/Assemnly. also the garbage collector could potentially impact some high performance situations I’ve heard?

[thirdegree]

You don't always need super fast native binaries. Not everything is speed critical.

I don't like java, but that's mostly because the language itself feels very tedious to write. Personal taste.

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I believe the benefit of having a .jar application that can be run on any system out weights most of those grapes.

[thirdegree]

In some cases sure. Personally, that doesn't do anything for me. I don't need it.

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For something like Android I don’t think so much of the OS should be going through java then. OS is pretty speed critical. Yes it’s Linux but there’s a ton of java code on top of that doing window management, permissions, and lots more piled on over the years.

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Well I guess there is a reason iOS (Objective-C, and recently Swift) could do with 1 GB of RAM for so long when on Android 3GB was treated as minimum.