Leveraging Rust in our high-performance Java database

https://questdb.io/blog/leveraging-rust-in-our-high-performance-java-database/

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crispy_kilt@feddit.de · 1 pts · 2y

Why go through all this effort, shoehorning Java into a GC free high performance language, and then still getting startup time measured in several seconds, instead of using a native language in the first place, such as C++, Ada or Rust?

Seems to me that it's more effort making Java something that it is not rather than using a language fit for the task in the first place.

Am I missing something?