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by mschuster91 3034 days ago
> If you need to mentally track every implicit allocation and deallocation in Java then you are essentially writing code in a kneecapped version of C++.

Well, Java has the advantage of being platform (and to a certain degree, runtime) independent, plus a robust set of best practices and ecosystem when it comes to modules and library handling, which is pretty hard to get done right for C/C++ projects.
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en4bz 3034 days ago
Node.js is also platform independent and has a package manager but I wouldn't use it for a High Performance / Low Latency application like a database.
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majidazimi 3033 days ago
> Well, Java has the advantage of being platform (and to a certain degree, runtime) independent

What is the benefit of that? Who on earth runs a DB written in Java on windows? Any useful server software will end up using platform native features, be it SQL server, MySQL, HBase, ...

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mschuster91 3033 days ago
> Who on earth runs a DB written in Java on windows?

There still are lots of Windows-only shops.

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