So you get all the OOP stuff from java, but in a scripting language.
I don't see that as an advantage. Some people do.
Function calls have a huge overhead even if they are in the same class.
Calling getters/setters hasn't any performance impact on modern jdk's. I remember benchmarking just that on various sun jvm versions. Can't find the article I wrote on Google Knol, but the result was that there was few performance impact on 1.4, almost none on 1.5 and none at all on 1.6. Anyway, it was barely noticeable on millions of method calls. So, this hasn't been an acceptable excuse for years
Only a fool would try to convince you that Linux can't be exploited - but, what has been the total cost of Linux exploits in the past 10 years? A mere drop in the bucket, compared to Windows exploited systems.
Again, there isn't any evidence. Why would this be? I use the same basic rules for every os I manage, and guess what? I never have to reinstall. Never.
Make sure your code does nothing gracefully.