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This is quite the take - i doubt most startups building in these spaces are using Java.
by rohan_ 17d ago
This is quite the take - i doubt most startups building in these spaces are using Java.
- chasd00 17d agoi can't speak to the others but banking and healthcare is virtually all java top to bottom. The big healthcare EMR/EHR systems are Java and every bank i've ever worked with (i use to do a lot of integrations with the big banks) was all Java. I have friends in those areas and whenever they start up a new project it's still always Java since that's where their skills are and what's on the "approved tech." list.
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- doublepg23 17d agoin my healthcare experience (claims processing, medtech) Java existed for sure but it was always as a "legacy" system they were moving away from.
- wk_end 17d agoWhat were they moving towards?
- doublepg23 17d agoclaims processing - TypeScript, lots of ETL tools with Go. medtech - .NET and TypeScript.
- Mashimo 17d agoWe embedded angular in our old Java client for hospitals. The user thinks he just opens a new window, but it's chrome in Java, which opens angular frontend, for our Java backend.
- nitwit005 17d agoUntil quite recently, the reasonably feature complete open source libraries available for things like DICOM or HL7 were old C/C++ libraries, Java, and C#. That often created a choice between Java and C#. People not doing Windows based development tend not to be interested in C#.
- adzm 17d agoCross platform C# is certainly getting huge in healthcare and medtech recently though.
- pjmlp 17d agoIs it? My experience from 2014 - 2018, was that C# was only used in the lifesciences software for Windows, and as wrappers around device drivers mostly written in COM. Everything that was done on the backend side was done in Java, although there were some exceptions for .NET deployments. So we ended up with mixed skills teams where depending on the ticket, you would be coding Java or C#.
- doublepg23 15d agoIME this decade a lot of people are using C# for Azure 'serverless' deployments.
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- pron 17d agoFirst, they do. Second, most software is not only not produced by software startups, it's not even produced by software companies. Do you know how much software a bank, or a credit card company, or a telecom provider, or a car manufacturer (like BMW), or a shipping company (like FedEx), or a defence company (like Boeing), or a large retailer (like Walmart) write in house?
- rohan_ 17d agoWasn't the discussion about greenfield projects? Or by greenfield do you mean internal greenfield projects at existing companies that already use Java?
- cromka 17d agoGreenfield doesn't imply startups, does it?
- theshrike79 12d agoGreenfield, in my mind, implies "we are not taking any historical factors into account and just pick the best one for the task." "We are a Java house" is not a Greenfield thing. It's picking what you already use internally.
- cute_boi 16d agoI used to work on bank, and their java code was very bad, although it works as they have been using same code for 30 years lol.
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- layer8 17d agoFrom what I see, most software being created in these spaces isn’t made by startups.
- pjmlp 17d agoIf they want to target Android customers, most likely they have to anyway.