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Re:Ask HN: Why do big companies tend to only build with Java? by Tichy on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @11:55AM (#3238912)
On the other hand, maybe you wouldn't need 40 developers on the project if you weren't building it in Java...
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Re:Ask HN: Why do big companies tend to only build with Java? by 0xEA on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @12:01PM (#3238950)
Once your code base gets to a certain size, the feature set gets big enough, and the maintenance starts stacking up, you need a more robust language.

Sure, plenty of web apps can run fine on Ruby, but even then, many of them start looking towards a language thats easier to maintain.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do big companies tend to only build with Java? by mseebach on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @12:27PM (#3239102)
Good developers can move fast in Java, bad developers will move slow and screw up, even in Ruby.
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Re:Ask HN: Why do big companies tend to only build with Java? by theshadow on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @10:49AM (#3243523)
Obviously, every Java project with hundreds of thousands lines of code can be written by 2 developers in Ruby in a weekend ;)
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Re:Ask HN: Why do big companies tend to only build with Java? by AndrewDucker on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @12:00PM (#3238946)
Possibly. But I'd like to see that proven.
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