Re:TeaVM: Build Fast, Modern Web Apps in Java
by coldtea on Sunday January 31, 2021 @09:41AM
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It's 2021. 1999 wants its arguments back.
At the language/runtime level Java has been faster than anything else we have used on the Web with huge success (faster than PHP, Ruby/Rails, Python, Node, for example) even since 2000, and is as fast or faster than Go. It's also used in HFT - where ultimate speed means a lot.
Seriously, your argument sounds like the first year CS student argument of yore, where they hear that assembly is faster, and want to rewrite everything in assembly (fortunately today's first year CS students are more well informed).
At the language/runtime level Java has been faster than anything else we have used on the Web with huge success (faster than PHP, Ruby/Rails, Python, Node, for example) even since 2000, and is as fast or faster than Go. It's also used in HFT - where ultimate speed means a lot.
Seriously, your argument sounds like the first year CS student argument of yore, where they hear that assembly is faster, and want to rewrite everything in assembly (fortunately today's first year CS students are more well informed).