>>106146041>(There's a lot of good stuff in the JVM ecosystem tho like Spark which is genuinely amazing)Spark wishes it wasn't on the JVM, and everybody uses Python to inter-op with it anyway.
It's only a JVM application because
>JDBC was a database whore in the aughts and early 10s>Hadoop came from Java's peak in the aughts, so Hadoop was built in Java and Spark shares Hadoop libsI'm sure some bright Ph. D student is working on porting it to fortran or something because of pure Java seethe.