Why

• But: It does not solve every problem

• • Over-hyped as a solution to everything
  • Bad reputation for wasting resources (CPU, RAM)
  • • It is easy to write inefficient programs
    • Early implementations were very slow
    • Type-safety and memory management have their cost
    • • Often over-estimated: Array bounds checking (→ no buffer overflows) costs ~2% execution time, avoids ~50% security-related bugs
  • Syntax similar to C++ → not very easy to learn