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"My respect for Linus just grew 10-fold!"

Why? He just bashes Java using strong language and not providing any arguments. This could get my respect if Java were some kind of sacred cow that nobody dares criticize. This is not the case AFAIK.

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I accept that this quote doesn't give his reasons. However, I have to agree with him. My reasons are that Java is slow and bloated.

You must think everything but well optimized, hard to write and read C/C++ is slow and bloated then. Which is fine if that is what you are comparing it to.

Why do so many people say Java is slow? What's slow? In fact Java compares fairly well against pretty much everything except C. It's a memory hog, but it sure isn't slow, whatever that means.

Not against JavaScript or PyPy, from what I've seen.

Like this one http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all... ?

also interesting:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/which-programming-lang...

I wish I could just get away with it like that.

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