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Why "of course"?

• meaty 14y ago
  Off the top of my head, the op is probably talking about the off the shelf stuff available for mq stuff and integration which is unsurpassed in java, plus the very low latency IO. TBH when I write java, I usually write virtually no code: I just glue other shit together. I don't get why people have so much against Java - it gets shit done in incredibly short amounts of time.
  • chewxy 14y ago
    Until you have to come up with your own algorithm. Then you're stuck with ohgods-so-many-.java-files
    • meaty 14y ago
      Depends. I wrote a rather complicated corridor based routing algorithm for a courier company in the UK which worked on real time traffic data. It was only 11 files and 12,000 loc and that was their entire business model.
  • scorpioxy 14y ago
    I find that people who "hate" java or any other language for that matter, haven't even used it in any meaningful way. I find its a great language for integration in general and talking to "legacy enterprise" systems. I do find it verbose, and have other remarks about it, but it does the job well enough.
  • brutuscat 14y ago
    Yeah, I actually kind-of think like that. So I use JRuby to integrate things with Apache Camel for example... Thanks