[Izkata]

"Java is slow" is a reputation it earned in the 90s/2000s because the JVM startup (at least on Windows) was extremely slow, like several seconds, with a Java-branded splash screen during that time. Even non-technical people made the association.

[marginalia_nu]

Java's start up speeds were greatly improved by the engineers at Oracle, but thankfully we invented springboot and guice to get around that problem.