I, on the other hand, tend to agree with the author. It would be nice to have an alternative to the JVM / .NET hammer. Note that I am not saying that those things are useless, just that I am tired of them used as the one true way to develop "business" apps.
Additionally, I have had to do a lot of "batch" type work in my career, such as "extract, transform, load" kind of work, and having to deal with GC sucks. It might be cheap to create and destroy temp objects, but holding a map/hash/dictionary in memory gets expensive, since the GC is always stomping around, and paging memory in and out of cache outside of the region doing the "real work".
Additionally, I have had to do a lot of "batch" type work in my career, such as "extract, transform, load" kind of work, and having to deal with GC sucks. It might be cheap to create and destroy temp objects, but holding a map/hash/dictionary in memory gets expensive, since the GC is always stomping around, and paging memory in and out of cache outside of the region doing the "real work".
I want options, not religion. http://roboprogs.com/devel/2009.07.html -- OK, I happen to agree with this guy's post.