The thing I coded where I felt the weight of the GC the most was a chess engine ...

joe_mwangi · 2026-05-11T21:02:48 1778533368

Hope you come back. Would be cool to venture in this new data oriented programming phase java has invested a lot in.

traderj0e · 2026-05-11T21:46:03 1778535963

I'm glad they saw the light. Last time I used Java was in high school when it was version 7, when it was pure OOP. Didn't even have lambdas. After I learned other languages, I didn't want to use Java again, seemed like a lot of boilerplate for something that didn't even give good performance.

PaulHoule · 2026-05-12T00:06:20 1778544380

I use Java all the time for ordinary programming at work, I think it is great, but I'm not in a hurry to mess with stuff off-heap.

dionian · 2026-05-12T01:19:34 1778548774

Java has always given good performance for most of my use cases. Like backend servers where startup time is mostly irrelevant.

saagarjha · 2026-05-12T03:24:17 1778556257

Maybe you should check again if the last time you used it was Java 7.

traderj0e · 2026-05-12T16:39:03 1778603943

I've looked, it's better now, hence my comment that they saw the light. They got lambdas, records, and auto types. More importantly they got virtual threads, but that's unrelated.