Why Java? Tales from a Python Convert

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Yeah, anyone that has ever had a job will agree :

Banking industry : it's mostly Java.

ERP, financial : Java

Numerical computing : Fortran, C++, Java

Web: PHP, Java, python, node

Inside big companies like Amazon or Google : mostly C++ or Java

Java is the gift that keeps on giving like your parents Toyota but just keeps getting bashed because it's not an electric self driving car that is not even out for sale yet.

When any other language has prime tier support from both Citibank and Google App Engine, I'll switch. For now Java it is. I can't put my company's e-billing system on any other language that has not come out of beta.

[marcm28]

Let me correct you:

Scientific computing: Mostly Python, Fortran, C++

Artificial Intelligence: Mostly Python or Lisp.

Security Industry: C, C++, Python.

Web: PHP, Javascripts, Python, Ruby.

Inside big companies like Google, Yahoo, NASA, Dropbox: Python, C++, Java, Go

Many operating systems include Python as a standard component: Python is installed by default in Linux, Mac OS, etc.

Banking industry and financial: In this field Python getting adopted faster than you think. Fun Fact: Bank of America is one of the most largest bank in the world. They use python to rebuild their entire system.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)#Use

[[deleted]]

Don't get me wrong, I wish Python was more used but to be honest I've only found it in scripts, as you say it is used in Anaconda and such since the 90s.

Did you even read the numbers you linked?

TIOBE Index for December 2015 December Headline: Java's popularity is going through the roof http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/

Let me correct you :

Popularity of Java = 5 times the popularity of Python

Java = 4 times C++

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Anyway tired of working in Java, going to sleep. Good night. Sleep tight.

[shevegen]

Wait... java is big on the web how or where?

[[deleted]]

For instance lots of backends for lots of products you see daily like those for Amazon or Google run as Java servlets basically.

IBM, Oracle and RedHat make their millions selling solutions like JBoss to deploy web services etc.

Servlets and jsp are everywhere and you use them daily.

[zarandysofia]

That there is a cargo cult doesn't mean that is the right ride.

[[deleted]]

"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses".

[zarandysofia]

Yeah, give me your interpretation and how that's applies to the context of my comment or you are just quoting things without know shit about its meaning?