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tux0r

Because that's the case? Except Python, probably.

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Ravaka Razafimanantsoa

So if I say that the earth is flat, is it ?

I want arguments.

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tux0r

Please use benchmarks, they are the best arguments.

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Ravaka Razafimanantsoa • Edited

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.

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Leonardo Teteo • Edited

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.