I've been a Java developer for the past 7 years. Was even a C/C++ dev for another 4 prior to that. Yes, Java is a bit "hated", but it has some really good features and it evolved a lot in the past years. I heard many arguments against Java, like "it is slow" or "it uses a lot of memory" and I don't find them all true. JIT speeds things up a lot and Java is capable or working with big quantities of data without a problem. In today's age, hardware is cheap, engineers are expensive. I would rather pay 50$ more per month for a bigger instance, than pay a few thousand to try and optimize the code so much or use a more efficient programming language but with features or libraries that are not so widely available.
There is a reason why many web apps run on Java or JVM-compatible languages (Spring, Spring boot, Play), even high-profile ones.
Spring and Hibernate are two main reasons why Java considered "memory hog" and "slow". Applications built without these frameworks usually fast and consume reasonable amounts of memory.
I've been a Java developer for the past 7 years. Was even a C/C++ dev for another 4 prior to that. Yes, Java is a bit "hated", but it has some really good features and it evolved a lot in the past years. I heard many arguments against Java, like "it is slow" or "it uses a lot of memory" and I don't find them all true. JIT speeds things up a lot and Java is capable or working with big quantities of data without a problem. In today's age, hardware is cheap, engineers are expensive. I would rather pay 50$ more per month for a bigger instance, than pay a few thousand to try and optimize the code so much or use a more efficient programming language but with features or libraries that are not so widely available.
There is a reason why many web apps run on Java or JVM-compatible languages (Spring, Spring boot, Play), even high-profile ones.
Spring and Hibernate are two main reasons why Java considered "memory hog" and "slow". Applications built without these frameworks usually fast and consume reasonable amounts of memory.
Yes it's just that many newbies are scared of those class names. Even i was but then i dived deep into learning Java and found it pretty amazing!