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rohan_yesterday at 4:13 PM4 repliesview on HN

This is quite the take - i doubt most startups building in these spaces are using Java.


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pronyesterday at 4:49 PM

First, 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?

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chasd00yesterday at 4:40 PM

i 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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layer8yesterday at 9:07 PM

From what I see, most software being created in these spaces isn’t made by startups.