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by ohhmaagawd 5184 days ago
"Unfortunately, Java's designers didn't seem to value CPU time at all. The language has a nasty reputation for sluggish interfaces, and its execution speed drags well behind C++'s. Pointer aliasing or not we are many generations of optimisers away from languages such as Java overtaking C++ so if you need fast code C/C++ is the obvious choice."

So maybe Java is slow for UIs. But this general statement isn't true. Next time the author should fact check: https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#...

"one of the best IDEs around in Xcode" Ha. Ha ha.