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The most compelling reason I have for choosing CLR and C# over virtually anything else (and ESPECIALLY Clojure and Scala) is availability (and consequently cost
by Spearchucker 9y ago
The most compelling reason I have for choosing CLR and C# over virtually anything else (and ESPECIALLY Clojure and Scala) is availability (and consequently cost) of skilled resources. Availability both today, and 5 or 10 years from today, depending on the project or program.
In my world (Fortune 500) boutique tech carries inherent risk.
- nine_k 9y agoThis sounds as if skilled Java developers are harder to find that C# developers. Is this indeed so?
- scarface74 9y agoFor me, Oracle is not as good of a stewart of Java as Microsoft is of .Net. I wouldn't waste my time converting from a Java infrastructure to a .Net infrastructure and if I were a Linux shop, I probably would stick with Java for awhile, but if I'm already using Windows servers or have my choice today of using Windows only for the backend, I would definitely chose it because of the number of devs and network people available.
- Spearchucker 9y agoI know why you said Java. But I pretty expressly didn't, because BigCorp won't know or care why you said Java. Technical smugness doesn't change the fact that Scala and Clojure are exotic, and that exotic carries risk.