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However languages that have both GC and value types, do happen to behave better than Java, at least until Java 10 eventually makes value types a reality on the JVM.

Taking something like Eiffel or Modula-3 as examples, many others are possible, architectures just like in C++ are perfectly approachable.

Not doing so is just a consequence of developers that are trigger-happy with new and don't think about designing for performance.



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