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Re:Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure ... by tcfhgj on Sunday May 17, 2026 @08:20AM (#48168261)
you seem to specifically aim at the current example, but mine wasn't

Anyways, consider how higher memory usage can affect the systems performance dramatically once the system needs to start swapping memory to disk signficantly

Re:Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure ... by gf000 on Sunday May 17, 2026 @11:29AM (#48169807)
Of course, what would be a point of talking about an overly specific statement that has no relevance here?
Re:Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure ... by hnlmorg on Sunday May 17, 2026 @08:56AM (#48168520)
If you cannot write a simple Java agent without consuming so much RAM that your system is swapping then that really says more about the developer than anything.

Java is used in plenty of embedded systems and other memory constrained environments. Yes, it’s not going to perform well compared with Rust, but that doesn’t mean it’s an Electron-equivalent bloated clusterfuck of an ecosystem that’s going to eat all your system resources.

Re:Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure ... by tcfhgj on Sunday May 17, 2026 @09:59AM (#48168993)
> so much

1) the agent is probably not the only thing running on the system, so more is just worse generally

2) I am fine if a developer needs Rust or similar to write a resource efficient app. I wonder what the developer could achieve when he put the optimization effort into the Rust app instead.

Re:Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure ... by hnlmorg on Sunday May 17, 2026 @11:23AM (#48169750)
My point is that Java isn’t going to be the application that sends your machine into swap hell.

People are so narrow minded about programming on this forum. They talk as if only Rust fills the void between unsafe C and node.js behemoths. But the reality is there are a plethora of other good languages out there too.

Re:Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure ... by mapcars on Monday May 18, 2026 @05:33AM (#48177259)
I can't put Java into good languages category at least for how it allows null to be everywhere.