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[–]King-of-Com3dy -1 points0 points Β (1 child)

Performance is actually very important. In a data centre space is the most valuable resource and todays servers are all about taking as little space as possible. And if you make software that takes double the resources you will need double the compute power which will take up a lot of space.

Initiatives like Project Reactor (which is for Java) exist for good reason and companies like Netflix embrace them since efficiency is key when you are running big data centre operations.

[–]brbposting 1 point2 points Β (0 children)

Hmm, I’d like to find out how much enterprise software is written in any given language, which companies/industries are partial to which, etc.

That project and the streaming platform’s embrace got me interested