True, C++ would have been a better language to compare to here. But modern java still performs close enough to all other modern languages in this regards, close enough that the the difference is essentially negligible for game development.

Check out this discussion on the jme hub to see what skilled java devs have to say on this topic: hub.jmonkeyengine.org/t/why-do-you...

#java #programming #gamedev #indiedev #coding

Myth 3: Difficulty. Java abstracts away the biggest project killer: manual memory management, which plagues projects in other languages with hard-to-debug crashes and leaks. Java's decades-long maturity provides access to a massive, stable ecosystem of libraries and documentation

Myth 2: Slowness. Modern JIT compilation makes Java performance nearly equal to C#, often sacrificing minimal raw speed for massive gains in stability and development time.

Myth 1: Garbage Collection Stutter. Modern JVMs (ZGC, Shenandoah) have reduced "stop-the-world" pauses to sub-millisecond, making the stutter argument irrelevant for most real-time games.