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I noticed that proficiency in Java is required. Is there a technical reason or unique feature that makes Java the best choice for 80legs, as opposed to some other language?

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Java is the only language we can use on the JVMs that run on the nodes in our grid computing system.

Other languages (Jython, JRuby) require techniques that break the security sandbox used by the JVMs.

I get it. Thanks for responding!

Most of the app's they allow you to run on the scraped content are built on java

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