Re:Performance of modern Java on data-heavy workloads
by the_af on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:11PM
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> Lots of people hate Java. It's unsuitable for those people.
Understood, but I'm specifically excluding those opinions because they tell me nothing and are unrelated to suitability. Some Smalltalk folk will tell you nothing that is not Smalltalk is suitable for anything; how much would you value their opinion when determining whether a language is suitable for development?
"I hate $LANGUAGE, therefore it's unsuitable for $DOMAIN" is the lowest, less useful form of opinion. It belongs in the realm of flamewars, not of informed decisions.
Suitability to me is not related to whether I hate or like a language. I hate COBOL. I've worked with it. I'd never in a million years argue it's not suitable for banking systems, because that would run contrary to established history.
As for other applications: I agree Java is not suitable for everything. I specifically argued about business software. That said, what about Minecraft, a hugely successful desktop game? :)
Understood, but I'm specifically excluding those opinions because they tell me nothing and are unrelated to suitability. Some Smalltalk folk will tell you nothing that is not Smalltalk is suitable for anything; how much would you value their opinion when determining whether a language is suitable for development?
"I hate $LANGUAGE, therefore it's unsuitable for $DOMAIN" is the lowest, less useful form of opinion. It belongs in the realm of flamewars, not of informed decisions.
Suitability to me is not related to whether I hate or like a language. I hate COBOL. I've worked with it. I'd never in a million years argue it's not suitable for banking systems, because that would run contrary to established history.
As for other applications: I agree Java is not suitable for everything. I specifically argued about business software. That said, what about Minecraft, a hugely successful desktop game? :)