I use a few prog. langs. and still prefer Java in many cases because the tooling is more advanced than any other language platforms.
Thank you for insulting Hadoop, Hbase, Cassandra, GWT commiters and developers at Google, Twitter, LinkedIN, and many more smart people who happened to choose Java.
I don't if its 'chose' or 'forced to choose' by pointy haired managers, mate!
By the way when given the choice its clear what the founders choose. Larry Page and Sergey Brin chose C++ and Python and Mark Zuckerberg chose Php. Twitter started out on Rails.
So its clear the Java mess seeps in only when the hackers are cleared from the scene and the layers of management begin to take control.
Yup, Paul Buchheit was somehow forced to use Java to write GMail with q gun in his head or something. And somehow Twitter engineers was forced to use Java because management said so...
I don't even want to know how you came into these conclusions. They don't make any sense at all.
Java was 3 years old when Google started off. Did you get the link where one of the founders was asking question about Java back in 98 regarding web development? Did you know that Java has been used for many many years inside Google when these so called hackers were still working there?
Did you know that Twitter actually gets more stable when they migrated to Scala and Java? Did you check the presentation by Twitter engineer as to why they moved away? Those are technical presentations, not management business type of presentation. Are you suggesting that rails hackers were the culprit of all Twitter scalability iscsues?
Thank you for insulting Hadoop, Hbase, Cassandra, GWT commiters and developers at Google, Twitter, LinkedIN, and many more smart people who happened to choose Java.
Nice reply with no factual support.