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I just don't understand you point of view and your answer does not give me more insight.
"Which is a comparison that does not make much sense in the first place" does not explain me anything. What I want to know is why, you think that any language other than Javascript is simpler and boots faster.
Java Web Developer with a passion for Spring and cloud computing. Know a thing or two about AWS. Trying to learn NodeJS lately with the help of TypeScript.
My interest in serverless is one of the reasons I'm learning NodeJS, the cold start is incredibly smaller than Java. I think I read the article you linked or a similar one. Java ecosystem is too large to boot fast, I even think they are making a good job to boot as fast as it is booting right now. The hope right now is Java 9 modules.
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In that case, you should literally prefer every language that's not Javascript. If only they ran in a browser!
Could you please elaborate ? I was only comparing Java with Javascript but I am interested in your thoughts.
Which is a comparison that does not make much sense in the first place.
Why are you so angry ?
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I just don't understand you point of view and your answer does not give me more insight.
"Which is a comparison that does not make much sense in the first place" does not explain me anything. What I want to know is why, you think that any language other than Javascript is simpler and boots faster.
Because that's the case? Except Python, probably.
So if I say that the earth is flat, is it ?
I want arguments.
Please use benchmarks, they are the best arguments.
Ok cool. Let us stop there.
For those interested, here is a benchmark comparing the cold boot of serverless functions in different languages. It says, among many things, that Python starts faster than NodeJS which starts faster than Java.
My interest in serverless is one of the reasons I'm learning NodeJS, the cold start is incredibly smaller than Java. I think I read the article you linked or a similar one. Java ecosystem is too large to boot fast, I even think they are making a good job to boot as fast as it is booting right now. The hope right now is Java 9 modules.
WASM that'l run anything in a browser. ๐คซ