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by KingMob 84 days ago
It's unfortunate, but people's associations with Java the lang bleed into their beliefs about the JVM, one of the most heavily-optimized VMs on the planet.

There's some historical cruft (especially the memory model), but picking the JVM as a target is a great decision (especially with Graal offering even more options).
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pjmlp 84 days ago
Exactly, especially because there isn't THE JVM, rather a bunch of versions each with their own approaches to GC, JIT, JIT caches, ahead of time compilation.

Only .NET follows up on it at scale.

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