Kotlin keeps up with Rust in DHH's Campfire rewrite

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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.

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.

> 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 made

2. The Java language has also evolved a lot and a number of things have been simplified.