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Use whatever you want and ignore what the rest of the internet says.
by LukeB_UK 11y ago
Use whatever you want and ignore what the rest of the internet says.
- Raed667 11y agoThis was my original thought as well. But then you have to think about employability.
- LukeB_UK 11y agoMySQL, PHP and JavaScript are all jobs that you can easily get employment in. As long as you understand the actual languages rather than just frameworks you should be fine.
- cpncrunch 11y agoIf you look at the hugely successful companies like Facebook, Uber, Google, Stackoverflow, etc. they all use the likes of mysql, php, python, ASP, javascript, etc. Airbnb uses RoR, which although fairly new is now pretty mainstream. I can't think of any really successful companies that use new-fangled frameworks and the latest rockstar languages.
- kedean 11y agoEh, rails is ten years old now. That's pretty respectable, and it actually seems like it's on its way out. It's also worth noting that Facebook is built on React for javascript, which falls under 'new-fangled frameworks'. It's also also worth noting that MANY companies are still using a Java stack (with Tomcat or JBoss).
- Raed667 11y agoI never understood why "new" companies would go to JAVA.
- flippant 11y agoNot all companies use Java for the language. Twitter switched from Ruby to Scala for their backend because of the JVM's performance.
- eswat 11y agoI know of at least a few new startups started by old guard that used to work at IBM and Blackberry. Many stuck with Java because they were already familiar with it and adopting something new would have slowed them down. You can argue that this would hurt hiring prospects. But many had their sights on attracting more engineers from these big tech as their first employees, who would have the same reasons for sticking with Java.
- kedean 11y agoWhy are new companies the only ones that matter? A huge number of software companies (and, more importantly, non-software companies with a big software division) have been around since ~the dotcom bust, which is arguably when Java started gaining it's biggest ground.