I take these performance benchmarks with a rock of salt. They are mostly hyper-optimzied generics which are as far away from actual production code as it can be. They are written in a way to allocate as little memory as possible and is done by people who know exactly what they are doing.

Especially the garbage collection strategies of Java are second to none (sorry, don't want to be a shill).

> For real-world applications....compare IntelliJ, Eclipse, Visual Studio, or Sublime against VSCode. My experience is that VSCode has horrible input latency and Intellij is blazingly fast once indexing is done.