An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python::The students also learn how to design board games and video games

  • pivot_root@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    There’s a difference between the JIT being able to emit better native code than an unguided compiler, and the language being as performant as another language. Java is never going to be as fast as C or C++, and that’s something you can blame its design for.

    • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
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      11 months ago

      They traded speed for safety, that’s why, not something right or wrong that you should “blame” anything for IMO.