i have no love for palantir and java makes me slightly sick but a lot of comments here are of the type "they use java, that's ancient, blah blah". although the

i have no love for palantir and java makes me slightly sick but a lot of comments here are of the type "they use java, that's ancient, blah blah". although they are in sv they are NOT a "start-up". They are an old-school government/3-letter-acronym IT supply/service company, think IBM and SAP. In this environment, there is a good chance their customers may be using ie6. java is what their market expects not what-has-the-cat-dragged-in-now-js framework.