Yeah, I've been on HN for a decade now (back when Ruby was the new hotness), and I remember looking through the engineering jobs in Ireland and almost entirely

Yeah, I've been on HN for a decade now (back when Ruby was the new hotness), and I remember looking through the engineering jobs in Ireland and almost entirely Java and C#. Additionally, pretty much all the distributed data processing tools run on the JVM, which is a big deal if that's what you do for a living.