Java

“Second, we only wanted to build this for Java. Right. So there's obviously multiple languages, things like Ruby on Rails and all of that type of stuff was also very popular back then. But we saw that the core of the enterprise, you know, we wanted to really go…”

“Yeah, multilingual, it's like nine languages across, like, 40 repos, but yeah, you got them, like, JavaScript, Rust, Java, C, you know, Ruby.”

“To give a comparison at Freshworks, when we released the product, we released in three months because we actually ditched Java. We put Ruby on Rails because it is easy to bake in and actually release that entire product in three months, right?”

“Very honestly, JetBrains has the best debugger for Java. It's not even close, right?”

“Even today, I will tell you at the company, we deprioritize things like Java or .NET as a technology stack, because most companies are not starting a new project with Java or .NET or a bunch of these old languages, right? Doesn't mean they're not valuable and …”

“AI may be able to transpile, you know, COBOL to Java, but there's a huge amount of context in what went into creating that COBOL code that's been totally lost, right?”

“But the interesting thing is that the layer below of like Ruby and Rails developers and Java developers and .NET developers. It's probably still at least as large as this was before that. The new layer just got added on top.”

“I think the Palantir's greatest competitive advantage was the fact that they managed to convince Really, really smart people to work on enterprise Java applications.”

“Very honestly, JetBrains has the best debugger for Java. It's not even close, right?”

“I got an offer actually from Sun at the time which had a had a unit, they had a software unit of Sun at the time called First Person which was creating what became Java later with James Gosling.”

“All of our models are at the top of the big code leaderboard by far. It's not close, particularly in languages other than Python. We have a 10 point gap between us and the next best model on Java, JavaScript, I think C-sharp multilingual.”

“For what it's worth at Stripe, we write a lot of code in Ruby. We write a lot of code in other languages like Java and TypeScript as well, but our kind of core infrastructure is mostly implemented in core product infrastructure, mostly implemented in Ruby.”

“We saw that there actually was a huge gap in the market for Java training. Most of the other boot camps were teaching front-end technologies like JavaScript. A lot of boot camps teaching Ruby on Rails, which are great technologies and in super high demand as w…”

“That's been great for Node.js, though. It's just another reason not to use Java, I guess.”

“If you look at Swift and Java, they're almost identical to the way apps were built in the nineties. Like not much has changed.”

“I wasted so much time, like, debating on whether to choose Rails or, you know, Java or, like, all this stuff. It does not matter. I mean, you can do a startup on an email list or write it in Cobalt for, like, you know, anybody cares. Just get it out. Try to ge…”