Depends on what metric you are looking and how. A warmed up JVM will run nearly as fast as Go or Rust, but many benchmarks fail to take JVM warmup into account and erroneously show Rust/Go as orders of magnitude faster, which is unfair. That said, it would be nice if warm up wasn't required. Graalvm helps in that area, but now you have to do something special.
However, JVM startup time is terrible. It's gotten better and there are ways to deploy a trimmed image, but it's still not as good as most other solutions unless you go into annoying extra steps.
When learning on my own, I I prefer to learn things that will last decades rather than years or months. Examples: Linux (bash, core utils, containers), CS (algorithms, data structures), compilers, other paradigms (functional, logic, oop), hardware architecture (logic gates, cpu design, assembly), encryption algos, Vim, etc.
Stuff that I think will only last a few years I will learn as needed on the job or at least on the clock.