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pulse7 on Aug 10, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Russia Starts Blocking VPN Protocols

JetBrains is valued at $7 billion by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and they build their popular IDEs in Java... So Java isn't de-ad outside of corporateware...

anthk on Aug 10, 2023 [–]

I know it's used by inertia in some corporate envs and thanks to some GC tunings it looks that it can run really well over long time. But even with GraalWM, the performance outside big irons leaves much to be desired...

GoblinSlayer on Aug 10, 2023 | [–]

Java works passably and gets job done over long time. And rust isn't magically fast.

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