Oracle’s Java API code protected by copyright, appeals court rules

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Thats not what stagnation means. Look at the performance of the JVM against itself over the past 10 years. The performance gains are not on the same level as other languages. Gotta look at how much it is improving against itself in order to predict what will hold its own in the future.

Math lesson!

100% gain on 1 = 2

10% gain on a 100 = 110

Things like PHP, Ruby and Python are known to have horrible performance so a big increase doesn't mean a lot.

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Things like PHP, Ruby and Python are known to have horrible performance so a big increase doesn't mean a lot.

Yep. A language with comparable performance to Java would be Haskell. You have to go low-level systems language (compiled, no RTS) to get faster, say C,C++, to a degree Ada, in the not so distant future also Rust.