[eitland]

Except Java is extremely performant and if your engineering team doesn't know exactly what they're doing there's often a good chance they'll both use more time and create a slower product with a low level language as far as I know.

[to11mtm]

umm wat.

> Except Java is extremely performant and if your engineering team doesn't know exactly what they're doing there's often a good chance they'll both use more time and create a slower product with a low level language as far as I know.

So agreed that it'll probably take more time if the team doesn't know what they're doing. But as for slower product? Ehh I think that was the point GP was making; Yeah, its' an overenginnered product that results at times, but it's got just enough guardrails that you hopefully just get a slow, or at worst buggy product, versus a product that doubles as a loot box of future CVEs.

[eitland]

The point is: for the majority of programmers - including a number who can write both reasonable reasonable C and reasonable Java - they will create better, faster programs with Java than with C and in shorter time.

There are absolutely times when Java doesn't cut it but at that point your options are getting increasingly limited in many ways: who can build and maintain it, what kind of languages and libraries you can use, the hardware you use, tuning etc.