Re:NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract
by obmelvin on Saturday July 01, 2017 @12:35AM
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It's not silly to want to use tech stacks that are commonly used instead of learning a stack that won't transfer elsewhere, I.e epic
Re:NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract
by linkregister on Saturday July 01, 2017 @12:53AM
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It's absurd to compare MUMPS with Java. Java is very much used by modern companies on the backend and for desktop applications.
You can still make your SV rockstar programmer salary writing code in Java. Don't they still use it at Google?
Re:NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract
by CydeWeys on Saturday July 01, 2017 @10:50AM
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Java is still the language of choice for many new projects at Google. Your options for new large server-side projects are, realistically, C++, Go, and Java, arranged in order of how high-level the language is. Java is a perfectly rational choice even today given those options.
Yes, they use it at Google and basically everywhere else. The JS circle jerk is extreme here. JS has its uses - mostly because it is the default language of the web and the web has many uses. That is all.
If your problems are interesting and we get along well, I will happily work on whatever out-of-fashion tech stack you have that the web development intelligentsia sneer at. And we'll do great things!
I had a blast making Wordpress development not suck and it led me down a lot of interesting roads and brand new ideas.
These other potential hires who only believe in The One True Stack are silly.