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A comment on Ask HN: Why don't more web projects start with a JVM stack?.

Re:Ask HN: Why don't more web projects start with a JVM stack? by tacos on Thursday February 04, 2016 @09:10AM (#11033964)
Hanging out at HN you could be excused for thinking that Java/C# don't exist. It's part of the charm.

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

For every advantage you cite above there's a more interesting blog post to be written using a newer tech or non-JVM language. Or a far simpler blog post that doesn't require "step 1: install Eclipse and Kotlin."

But there are plenty of articles about JVM and .NET stuff.

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Re:Ask HN: Why don't more web projects start with a JVM stack? by excitom on Thursday February 04, 2016 @09:17AM (#11034008)
Similarly you would think that PHP doesn't exist. Whatever one may think of it, PHP runs the majority of websites (I've seen various estimates in the 80% range).
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Re:Ask HN: Why don't more web projects start with a JVM stack? by paulmd on Thursday February 04, 2016 @09:29AM (#11034084)
There's a whole lotta CMS, Wiki, and storefront systems out there. And many of the big names there - WordPress, Drupal, MediaWiki, etc - all run on PHP.

We tend to live in a world of custom-coded dynamic websites, while many needs can be filled adequately by a static page or off-the-shelf package like the above. They're not sexy, but they work.

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Re:Ask HN: Why don't more web projects start with a JVM stack? by Chris2048 on Thursday February 04, 2016 @02:16PM (#11036400)
Many programming language can build those same sites using template DSLs ala haml. PHP is like a template DSL without the host language. While PHP is in many ways mature, why start from there now?
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