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Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by throwaway7783 on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @10:24AM (#46135537)
While kotlin is somewhat nicer, it is not making a huge difference compared to java25. Like the sibling said, go is as verbose , the JVM is unparalleled still.

Why wouldn't I choose java

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Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by BobbyJo on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @02:51PM (#46139138)
Golang has a way smaller memory footprint on average.

I left a place using Java to run edge apps and the footprint was a major issue.

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