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You're implying that Wave engineers don't know how to use Java. But Wave engineers are Google engineers. Google engineers are hired somewhere in a high 90th per
by rryan 15y ago
You're implying that Wave engineers don't know how to use Java. But Wave engineers are Google engineers. Google engineers are hired somewhere in a high 90th percentile of programming ability and experience.
You've proven the GP's point -- don't use Java because the only people who know how to "use it" are 1% of programming experts that you probably don't have working for you.
- maximusprime 15y agoOnly in the bubble of language fashion that is Hacker News, could the failure of Google Wave be attributed to their language choice. Billions of successful projects run on Java.
- vegai 15y ago>Billions of successful projects run on Java. I will give you billion dollars if you can prove that. My personal guess (using my personal metrics) is that there are 10^3 to 10^4 successful Java projects and 10^9 failed ones.
- maximusprime 15y agoIn any event, the failed ones don't mean anything useful. Successful ones mean "You can succeed using this". The failed ones mean "This failed, could have been for a ton of reasons".
- catch23 15y agoamazon.com runs java since day 1, fairly successful too :-)
- moeffju 15y agoWeren't they on Perl and Masonry in the beginning?
- maximusprime 15y ago> You're implying that Wave engineers don't know how to use Java. But Wave engineers are Google engineers. Google engineers are hired somewhere in a high 90th percentile of programming ability and experience. I'll just leave this here (Dart - the new language from Google). http://webreflection.blogspot.com/2011/10/what-is-wrong-about-17259-lines-of-code.html http://webreflection.blogspot.com/2011/10/what-is-wrong-abou... I think you're a little too trusting that every single Google programmer knows what they're doing.