Ok, I have to admit I am "allergic" to this take. Why do you mind (or even care about) the JVM? Do you care about the innards of Python's VM, or any other language's runtime?
Leaving aside which language you use on top, the JVM is likely the single most-developed and most-improved VM ever created. Uncounted bazillions of man-hours of development went into it. Corner cases were found, performance was tweaked, just-in-time optimization was implemented, novel garbate collectors were developed. It is an impressive piece of machinery, which is why I find it slightly annoying when it gets a dismissive treatment "just because".
Of course I might be wrong and you might just be that person that spent the last three weeks chasing an obscure JVM issue that happens in 0.01% percent of production servers, in which case you do have legitimate reasons for being "allergic" to the JVM.
Ok, I have to admit I am "allergic" to this take. Why do you mind (or even care about) the JVM? Do you care about the innards of Python's VM, or any other language's runtime?
Leaving aside which language you use on top, the JVM is likely the single most-developed and most-improved VM ever created. Uncounted bazillions of man-hours of development went into it. Corner cases were found, performance was tweaked, just-in-time optimization was implemented, novel garbate collectors were developed. It is an impressive piece of machinery, which is why I find it slightly annoying when it gets a dismissive treatment "just because".
Of course I might be wrong and you might just be that person that spent the last three weeks chasing an obscure JVM issue that happens in 0.01% percent of production servers, in which case you do have legitimate reasons for being "allergic" to the JVM.