People write MLOC monstrosities in Java because they can. You get some boring financial topic and some sub-par programmers and they'll write as much garbage as

People write MLOC monstrosities in Java because they can. You get some boring financial topic and some sub-par programmers and they'll write as much garbage as the language can possibly sustain. These things are a testament to how safe and simple Java is as a language. Not having massive crappy code bases is a negative sign in terms of how reliable and easy to understand a language is.