[jazoom]

A JVM attached as a sidecar to each pod is a waste of resources.

Garbage collection isn't great for a high performance proxy.

[williamallthing]

Exactly! We considered Go briefly but in the end, the magic intersection of native-code performance, plus guaranteed memory safety, trumped every other concern for the data plane.

[otterley]

Is there a significant demonstrable performance difference between Linkerd 2 and Envoy as a result?