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Minecraft is written in it

Given Minecraft's popularity, functionality and stability, Java must be doing something right.

I understand your viewpoint though. The result Is one thing, "producing" the result Is another.

Minecraft is still notoriously slow. If you've tried hosting your own Bukkit/Spigot server, you'll know how memory intensive it gets with basic plugins. I'm actually thinking about running some benchmarks to see performance levels.

Regardless, Microsoft's decision years ago to port it to C++ for console would've been a great decision for PC as well, but I don't think it's going to happen officially.