JVM Internals (2013)
This reminded of the "layers of crap" John Carmack was talking about once.Java is an impressive tech, but I still fail to understand why it is so popular. It comes from a proprietary tech, it requires additional software to run, you cannot disable its garbage collector, browsers don't like it, I don't think it's very popular in the manufacture embedded controllers, and if enforces object oriented structure inside its JVM. Oh and Torvalds hates it too.Not to mention the gargantuan bloat that are JEE and system like maven or ant. It feels really different and foreign compared to the simplicity of unix many devs are used to.Even microsoft decided to rewrite minecraft to C++. I saw a private server had such big freezes, just to handle 3 or 4 players.