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0 pointsScarbutt7y ago0 comments

Not only do you have to figure out what’s going on in the JVM you also need to duplicate your effort to figure out how the JVM is running on the host.

Isn't that true for all other languages you mentioned? python, erlang, php, golang bundles a runtime, etc..

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ilovecaching7y ago

It’s a spectrum. Java is at the very end with Erlang. I have a lot of domain specific knowledge of The Beam. Go on the other hand has a very lightweight runtime.

spricket7y ago

Very true. Newer languages seem to be moving back towards native binaries. The promised advantages of JIT compilation have faded with improvements to compilers and profile driven optimization.

Go and Rust are interesting to follow. A highish and low level language both using lightweight runtimes

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ilovecaching7y ago

It’s a spectrum. Java is at the very end with Erlang. I have a lot of domain specific knowledge of The Beam. Go on the other hand has a very lightweight runtime.

spricket7y ago

Very true. Newer languages seem to be moving back towards native binaries. The promised advantages of JIT compilation have faded with improvements to compilers and profile driven optimization.

Go and Rust are interesting to follow. A highish and low level language both using lightweight runtimes

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse