[CaptSpify]

I'm going to have to flat out disagree with you. I hear this all the time from java devs, but have never seen it in real life. Every implementation I've personally seen of java is extremely slow, and has horrible debugging utilities.

[icedchai]

Ok. I'm going to have to disagree since I've seen it in real life several times. Also many large distributed system projects, such as Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Hadoop, etc. are all written in Java.

[CaptSpify]

I guess we'll just have to disagree due to differing experiences. How does a language being used in different distributed system projects mean it's fast? It's just the language they chose to go with. That decision could have nothing to do with speed.

[icedchai]

I was mainly talking about the logging and monitoring facilities, not speed. Though those projects are all quite fast. It's not 1996 anymore.