alt Hacker NewsCan you provide any examples or evidence of Java apps that prove this?
Because in my experience as of 2026, Java programs are consistently among the most painful or unpleasant to interact with.
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belfthrow • today at 5:10 PM
Crac / aot cache / ready now all can address this. Not even considering native aot. Multiple low latency trading systems across market markers, hedge funds and ibs prove this. But people just want to compare it to building a cli tool in go or rust.
IntelliJ IDEA is reasonably fast, but of course its hard to make a big desktop app in java be fast.