The question is, one you are no longer writing anything close to idiomatic java, does the (sketchy) argument that Java is easier to write than C++ still holds?
It still is as there's plenty of non-low-latency related stuff that you still need from the ecosystem such as portability, dependency management, common libraries and utilities, debuggers, profilers, etc.
Thanks, this makes sense.
but if any of those common libraries allocate short lived objects, doesn't that ruin things?