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Such as? It certainly isn't at Microsoft. Nor at Apple. Nor at Amazon, or Facebook, or LinkedIn or Twitter. Android made a big mistake of throwing in with Java

Such as? It certainly isn't at Microsoft. Nor at Apple. Nor at Amazon, or Facebook, or LinkedIn or Twitter. Android made a big mistake of throwing in with Java originally (as the project originated as a decoupled version of J2ME, as such was the thing at the time), and Google has a preponderance of Javaheads internally, perhaps explaining their continued reinvention of new languages. Oracle likes Java, but that's because their products are largely code produced over a decade ago.

pjmlp 14y ago
Java at LinkedIn http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/08/linkedin-data-infrastructure http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/08/linkedin-data-infrastructu... Java at Twitter http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/04/twitter-drops-ruby-for-java.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/04/twitter-drops-ruby... Java at Facebook http://www.infoq.com/presentations/HBase-at-Facebook http://www.infoq.com/presentations/HBase-at-Facebook Java at Amazon http://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/ http://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/
- huggyface 14y ago
  None of those hold Java as the "Lingua Franca" of the respective companies. Even remotely. No one doubts that you can find Java somewhere in any reasonably sized company, or as a largely inconsequential basis for a product they use (such as HBase), but only extreme hope can lead someone to conclude that makes it a principal technology.
  - pjmlp 14y ago
    If you cared to read the given links, or even search a bit yourself, you'd see that, for example, Twitter has replaced the original Ruby architecture by Java.
eli_gottlieb 14y ago
As far as I know, Java is the lingua franca of Amazon and Google. Facebook uses some, but it's not their standard. LinkedIn and Twitter each use some Java alongside their Scala. Only Apple and Microsoft exclusively use C++ or made their own languages. Google also uses a lot of C++, but they're predominantly on Java.

pjmlp 14y ago

Java at LinkedIn http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/08/linkedin-data-infrastructure http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/08/linkedin-data-infrastructu... Java at Twitter http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/04/twitter-drops-ruby-for-java.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/04/twitter-drops-ruby... Java at Facebook http://www.infoq.com/presentations/HBase-at-Facebook http://www.infoq.com/presentations/HBase-at-Facebook Java at Amazon http://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/ http://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/

huggyface 14y ago
None of those hold Java as the "Lingua Franca" of the respective companies. Even remotely. No one doubts that you can find Java somewhere in any reasonably sized company, or as a largely inconsequential basis for a product they use (such as HBase), but only extreme hope can lead someone to conclude that makes it a principal technology.
- pjmlp 14y ago
  If you cared to read the given links, or even search a bit yourself, you'd see that, for example, Twitter has replaced the original Ruby architecture by Java.

eli_gottlieb 14y ago

As far as I know, Java is the lingua franca of Amazon and Google. Facebook uses some, but it's not their standard. LinkedIn and Twitter each use some Java alongside their Scala. Only Apple and Microsoft exclusively use C++ or made their own languages. Google also uses a lot of C++, but they're predominantly on Java.