IBM Open Sources Their Own JVM/JDK As Eclipse OpenJ9 (eclipse.org)

IBM has open sourced a "high performance, scalable virtual machine" with "a great pedigree... [it's] at the core of many IBM enterprise software products." Slashdot reader dxb1230 writes: IBM has open sourced their JDK/JVM implementation named J9 as OpenJ9. The community now has an alternative implementation of Java which has been well tested on enterprise workloads and hardware. This unlike, OpenJDK, has all the bells and whistles like jit.

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Re: Why Java?

[guruevi]

Because they don't understand lower languages like C or someone told them that Object Oriented programming is a good paradigm.

Java is indeed a PITA but it abstracts away the complicated stuff and by the time you've come to the conclusion that Java is the wrong choice for pretty much every project beyond a certain complexity, you're in too deep to make the switch.