I stand by that - I really think the JVM has a bad GC, and it has cost businesses billions probably. There is no trade off here - the JVM & Java have incredibly high memory requirements due to poor design - and this leads to all kinds of issues (like the bad GC latencies). No other language has this kind of problem as badly as the JVM does, even other GC languages. And we shouldn't accept this anymore - look at how much better golang's GC is for real world usage.