Re:NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract
by sidlls on Friday June 30, 2017 @11:05PM
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Hardly. I work in a company who's stack was Java from the beginning as a "scrappy startup." Some of the folks who have been here the longest are some of the first to jump on any heavyweight Enterprise Stack they can think of.
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Re:NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract
by criddell on Saturday July 01, 2017 @08:07AM
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I think Java still makes a lot of sense on the server.
Sure it can make perfect sense. There are plenty of developers who know it well enough to be productive and it's certainly fast enough for typical server applications even at a large scale. It's the crufty heavyweight frameworks and ceremony around the ecosystems that can be a bit off, in my view. Also I'm not a fan of OO programming for most use cases. It has its place, like any paradigm, but I'm not convinced that place is as large in scope as others might think.