Comment by zokier

Well, jdk17 was released just few months ago so I doubt anyone has real experience with it for gamedev. But considering that game heaps are relatively small (as in <100G) and modern Java GCs can manage consistent <1ms pause times, I'd imagine Java is more viable for gamedev from that point of view. I'd also emphasize that there is large spectrum of performance requirements for games and you can make quite a lot these days with relatively poor performance characteristics, and on the other hand in the top end Java probably is still not good enough.