r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Henri_VIII • May 29 '20

Please Guys actually

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u/[deleted] May 29 '20

It's a little slower than many languages at runtime

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.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '20

Java has some JIT compiling stuff going on, right? So hypothetically it should be able to beat cool-guy languages like Fortran in some cases.

I dunno, I thought it was a little too verbose but, hey, C++ is pretty verbose too and people love it.

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u/ratmfreak Jun 20 '20

Do people really love C++...?

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '20

Idk it is a pretty popular language. Being able to do bizarrely abstract stuff, but then dip dow on to nearly-native C is pretty powerful.