Java is very good for enterprise development where the code has to be maintained. It's easier to read and contains less gotchas than C++. It is especially good when the team consists of people of varying coding competencies. Also nobody ever gets fired for choosing to develop using Java.
thehardsphere|9 years ago
This is actually a negative. Java can be great if you have half-way decent people who make good choices with regards to libraries and frameworks and application servers and whatnot, but the choices that come from "nobody ever gets fired for" thinking are by far the worst ones.
Example: IBM WebSphere. "Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM," but they absolutely should be if they choose this giant shitpile. Anyone who has chosen this shit should be thrown into a wood chipper, unless they specifically chose it waste the maximum amount of time possible. Or, if it was invented to set Soviet computing back 30 years like the IBM 360, except that joke doesn't work anymore because the Cold War ended before Java was even a thing.
hermitdev|9 years ago
thehardsphere|9 years ago
Really? I feel like Java and the JVM are great for developing web apps with complex requirements, especially if they need to scale. Very few decent web development choices perform as well as the JVM does.
I mean, part of the reason that "enterprises" have "shitty enterprise Java" is because "enterprises" will create "shitty enterprise anything," and the Java implementation often performs better than the alternatives.