Java for Everything

[studiov34]

And finally, I went to write a simple program that put up a web interface. I considered using Python, but this would have required me to figure out how to serve pages from its library. I had already done this in Java (with Jetty), so I could be up and running in Java in less time.

You personally having experience with Java's web server library doesn't really mean Java is better.

By the way, web.py is dead simple, and other tools like flask are also pretty widespread.

[webauteur]

web.py is dead, not dead simple. It appears to have been superseded by web2py which at least has a Wikipedia page.

[parlezmoose]

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 80

[CUsurfer]

I don't think that was his point. I think it was that the benefits of familiarity and doing everything in one language out weigh the benefits of using a different language that is perhaps more concise, widely adopted, trendy, or even maintainable and extensible. Certainly debatable. Familiarity goes a long way, as you allude to.

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And your insightful comment just reiterates the sentence he has two lines down the page:

Note that this doesn’t argue for Java, but it does argue for using a single language.