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by ponkpanda 1226 days ago
Also - don’t discount all the new features JVM and Java have added or are adding: virtual threads, structured concurrency, FFI, class primitives, SIMD. JVM is highly compute performant given its GCd.

I’m not even a Java dev but I respect its place in the ecosystem and find evangelism quite irritating and normally, has some corporate backer(s).
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rlawson 1225 days ago
Yeah I think virtual threads will give the JVM a huge boost, I am certainly looking forward to it. Personally, I find the async/await model harder to reason about than the thread-per-request model.
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rrishi 1226 days ago
> Also - don’t discount all the new features JVM and Java have added or are adding

It's true that over past 5-10 years they have put their foot on the accelerator and are adopting good features from other languages

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