[rualca]

Java's punishing startup times is not a red herring, and I'm dumbfounded someone in a forum like HN makes such a claim. Even in serverless applications like AWS Lambda, python and javascript enjoy execution times that are an order of magnitude faster than Java ones, even with hot starts and stuff initialized a priori.

[qyi]

I was saying that it's a red herring to go "oh people don't used typed languages because Java programs start up slow".