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Re:Kill Bill – Open-Source Subscription Billing and Payments... by inson on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @01:21PM (#33265199)
Or Kotlin. People usually complain about JVM but lots of enterprise software runs on it. Spring boot ecosystem provides lots ready to use libraries. Kotlin can be much easier to use compared to Java. Yes Go can be better language now, but still lacks lots of library and API support. And Rust, I'd rather code in jvm language fast and ship it fast than building up whole infrastructure that takes way more time to implement.
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Re:Kill Bill – Open-Source Subscription Billing and Payments... by RamblingCTO on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @04:18PM (#33267449)
In my main gig we run on kotlin (fintech/accounting saas) and I absolutely despise it, the overhead is massive. But I wouldn't want to write it in golang, we really need proper OOP. It's also so unbearably slow, it's actually impressive. But it is what it is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Re:Kill Bill – Open-Source Subscription Billing and Payments... by djcannabiz on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @04:47PM (#33267730)
what would you say is a fast language then?
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Re:Kill Bill – Open-Source Subscription Billing and Payments... by RamblingCTO on Thursday October 20, 2022 @03:12AM (#33271715)
Golang, Rust, etc.

Also, to be fair, a big part of the slowness is also the tooling, Spring Boot, Hibernate etc. You can mitigate that by using micronaut or exposed/krush, but we only have a microservice running on that. The main business logic is the classic java web stack. Tests, running the app, building takes forever.

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