FTP is not dead. A huge percent of Wind Turbines use FTP for data transfer.

> asterisk is inexplicably used both to declare a pointer and a COMPLETELY different operation of dereferencing a pointer.

This is the most confusing concept of pointers. I feel this could have been easily avoided with different character like ~ or ^ or other.

Sounds good.

BTW, your website is heavy, for a basic set of components it shouldn't be taking 100% CPU.

Yes, We used GraalVM for data encryption project, side-effect is super fast performance. The number of req/sec also 3x.

I once solved a similar issue in a large application by applying the Flyweight design pattern at massive scale. The architectural details could fill an article, but the result was significant performance improvement.