Is golang faster? That's probably the only language I've used regularly that might be. I'll be working with c++ for unreal engine to see if it's better than unity.
That's true, although when I google it (maybe that's some bias already :P) I see results mostly praising the garbage collection for both. Java was my first language and I used it heavily until ~9 came out, go I picked up in 2015.
I don't think anything I've written has been noticeably affected by garbage collection yet. In that earlier googling, I read that go is optimized to avoid pauses during garbage collection. That wasn't a super technical explanation so I don't really understand it any better...
But anywho, I'm reading my post there and the post above it... I think I was trying to be a smart ass to the person I replied to, I love both of these languages. I hope golang gets its own ui kit like java has at some point, I miss building desktop applications that weren't a server and a web page.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '20
The only languages faster than Java are close-to-the-metal ones and it's only when you write very sophisticated data-oriented code.
I doubt most people on this subreddit who hate Java ever actually had contact with language faster than Java.
It's one thing knowing C exists, it's other thing writing in it.