[kasey_junk]

Well to be fair it does mention Java (though the deployment model expressed is, shall we say, Byzantine).

[rthomas6]

Java, while compiled, isn't compiled to machine code, and the bytecode to which it is compiled is run on a virtual machine. For this reason, I consider Java more of an interpreted language than a compiled language per se.

[pjmlp]

There are quite a few comercial JVMs with native compilers the HN crowd tends to ignore.

[kasey_junk]

Fine but calling it slow is unfair, especially in relation to Go.

[rthomas6]

Ah, true. I guess I didn't mean to call Java slow, but interpreted languages in general (at least, their reference implementations) are pretty slow. You're right... Java's kind of in its own category in a lot of ways.