SRE here. Blog author seems to not understand the business side of the house which is concerning.

Companies pick Java or .Net because hiring developers is easy, which business side loves, and a lot of business development work is not rocket science. It's taking business logic and implementing in code.

I recommend this blog article to understand the logic behind Java but it applies to other technologies in question. https://gist.githubusercontent.com/terryjbates/3fcab7b07a0c5...

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aleph_minus_one 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Companies pick Java or .Net because hiring developers is easy, which business side loves

Instead of giving a counter-argument, I'll link to a parallel discussion thread concerning "hiring developers for programming language X is easy": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47888298

> a lot of business development work is not rocket science. It's taking business logic and implementing in code.

In my experience (and I claim that I am rather sitting at the source), it is rather that developers who implement business logic are typically actively held back or prevented from inventing smart solution for the problems that the company has - even if these (very often) would be very helpful for the company.

In the area of implementation of business logic, thus the tall poppy syndrome [1] is very prevalent: you are very hinted not to think of innovative solution, but to be a good worker bee. This is why in my opinion implementation of line-of-business applications is frowned upon by many good programmers, and not because the questions that you are involved with are "boring" (they are not!).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome

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stackskipton 2 days ago | parent [-]

Jane Street is always a bad example since they are working on niche problems that few people experience.

Sure, Tall Poppy happens because A) It's human nature and B) Companies don't want unusual poppy size, they want same size so when it's time to harvest some of them, they can just quickly cut.

	▲	aleph_minus_one 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> Jane Street is always a bad example since they are working on niche problems that few people experience. Surprisingly (?), in my experience in a lot of industries people (or more specifically: programmers who develop internal software for this industry) work on problems that are incredibly niche outside this industry, and thus incredibly few people ever experience.

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kjellsbells 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That link displays as raw content, maybe [1] is kinder, and is rooted on the original author's blog.

[1] https://sasamat.xen.prgmr.com/michaelochurch/wp/?p=881

	▲	stackskipton 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I didn't want to link off to random site.

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thebeardisred 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

For anyone looking for the original - https://web.archive.org/web/20120504065429/http://michaeloch...

(it was easier for me to use in reader mode because it didn't obliterate spacing between words)