I mean, I'm not a JVM fan, but this sort of thing happens in lots of languages, and even operating systems. Upgrade from version X to X + 1, especially with lots of changes in everything else, and you're bound to hit different limits or explore the interface with limits you were hitting and didn't realize.

The other option is to never update anything; which is valid, but painful.

As opposed to what?

Machine code. Assembly if you’re weak willed and need some hand holding.

Of course _real programmers_ write forged microcode to define just the machine code instructions they need, and they flash the ucode update live in prod to deploy their app.

But if you're weak willed and need some hand holding, the official ISA's machine code is tolerated too.

Written with a magnet, and a steady hand. Keyboards are a crutch.

Shit the ROMs on the Apollo mission were hand-woven wire looms. 4K wires weaving between and around magnets. Why hold a magnet when you can use a marlin spike?

Because nobody has ever expanded their machine code beyond the L1 cache size and experienced a huge difference in performance.

Pathetic. If you can't fit your code into L1, are you even a real programmer? No one has time for your Electron shit. Get real, bruh, what's your deadlift?

Back in my day we didn't have L1, so our code just ran on 16 registers.

I personally use cosmic focused on a disk by the turbulences created by a butterfly to program, but it's not a competition

I was under the impression that not every language compiled to java byte code, and that programs can run independently of it (i.e. without having any JRE installed)

Hubris. I've seen shops build servless applications with Java because "we have java developers".

I left that contract very quickly.

Is this really an issue with graalvm?

As an anecdotal case, a company a friend of mine works at has a backend workforce of primarily Java-only devs, so that's the only thing they can really maintain. There's a lot of sunk cost and inertia on the enterprise side when it comes to Java.

But yeah for starting something new, with an open language choice? No way anyone sane would go for it these days. Especially after Oracle basically closed sourced it, making JRE distribution illegal.

I take the copious downvotes as confirmation!

JVM is easily one of the best runtimes out there by any objective measure.

(JVM != Java, remember)

So tell me, what does the J in JVM stand for?