On: Rise and fall of JVM languages

[nurettin]

I'd imagine most people here are just web developers and haven't used anything beside nodejs in a professional environment, so their first reaction to java is "oh, I have to restart the server everytime I change a web page? that's a pain".

Not saying it can't be done with java. Even android studio has a hot class swapping feature (I know it isn't JVM but as a proof of concept this exists)

[shock → nurettin]

The JVM supports hot swapping. There's also DCEVM⁰, which supports more features than OpenJDK Hotspot.

⓪ - https://github.com/dcevm/dcevm

[pjmlp → nurettin]

There is no need to restart the server all the time, it depends on the type of change.

When using plain JSPs with exploded WARs, you can usually hot reload.