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by adrianN 1756 days ago
The boring, memory safe, option seems to be Java, but I haven't touched java for web stuff in a number of years. Is the performance much worse than Go? Go seems to be really nice for web stuff, afaik it's one of the things it was designed for.
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Cthulhu_ 1756 days ago
I'm sure performance can be comparable (in terms of requests / second) with enough tweaking and sane design choices, but Java has much longer startup times (especially if you use a framework like Spring) and much higher memory usage, so those are things to keep in mind.

Go is / feels a lot more minimalistic, much less drama and more direct code. Less opportunities to be clever.

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sobakistodor 1756 days ago
Java makes you think about its GC. "What i must do to prevent GC wake up". Always re-use allocated objects and so on. Or you turn off GC. So, you got C++. But with C++ you write smaller code (considering C++11...C++20 standards) compared to Java, so why you need "bloated C++-like language (Java is) if you can use C++".
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