Kotlin keeps up with Rust in DHH's Campfire rewrite (wecodefire.com) 1 points by kinabalu76 1mo ago ↗ HN
[–] lewisjoe 1mo ago ↗ There's something I remember said by one of Kotlin's creator along these lines: Java sucks, but the JVM is a great platform to target. [–] znpy 1mo ago ↗ > Java sucks, but the JVM is a great platform to target.Java sucking is absolutely a matter of personal taste and opinion so i won't digress on that.What i want to put the focus on are two facts:1. The JVM has improved enormously since that statement was made2. The Java language has also evolved a lot and a number of things have been simplified.
[–] znpy 1mo ago ↗ > Java sucks, but the JVM is a great platform to target.Java sucking is absolutely a matter of personal taste and opinion so i won't digress on that.What i want to put the focus on are two facts:1. The JVM has improved enormously since that statement was made2. The Java language has also evolved a lot and a number of things have been simplified.
[–] deterministic 1mo ago ↗ I think this just shows that language syntax doesn’t matter any more in the age of AI. What does matter is the language performance.Claude is brilliant at writing C++ so I get the performance I want with zero hassle and see no reason to switch to a “better” language.
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 14.9 ms ] threadJava sucking is absolutely a matter of personal taste and opinion so i won't digress on that.
What i want to put the focus on are two facts:
1. The JVM has improved enormously since that statement was made
2. The Java language has also evolved a lot and a number of things have been simplified.
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Claude is brilliant at writing C++ so I get the performance I want with zero hassle and see no reason to switch to a “better” language.