Lua with LÖVE [0] or LÖVR [1] is fine for many types of games though, even though Lua is a language with GC. Most of the heavy lifting is still done in low level languages like C or C++. And it should be easy to write performance critical parts in C/C++ anyways, if needed.

I suspect LÖVE / LÖVR would perform better than Java for games, but haven't tested or verified myself.

---

[0]: https://love2d.org

[1]: https://lovr.org