Have you ever worked for boring, enterprisey companies? Java is everywhere, sadl... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		silisili on April 2, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google’s ARC Now Runs Android Apps on Chrome OS, W... Have you ever worked for boring, enterprisey companies? Java is everywhere, sadly.

edwinnathaniel on April 2, 2015 [–]

Yep, like

Yahoo! (search, infra),

LinkedIN,

Twitter,

NetFlix,

Square,

RelateIQ (startup, bought by Salesforce),

Salesforce (itself),

Google,

RedHat,

Facebook (I'm sure there are a few teams that have to use Java),

Yammer,

the list goes on and on and on...

pekk on April 2, 2015 | [–]

To be fair, the list of companies using COBOL is also long.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact