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Does that apply to any web service that meets the following criteria?

  * Created in the last 5 years
  * Built by an organization without a large Java heritage

I bet that number goes waaaay down, way quick.

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For sure it may, but I wonder how many of those decisions will be regretted? Java is a fast portable language with a decent type system and a bevy of time tested libraries. It certainly isn't perfect, but modern Java is a decent development environment (and this comes from a Rubyist). I suspect only Go can match its speed, productivity, and safety.

Why choose Java when you can pick from the more modern languages that also run on the JVM: Kotlin, Scala, Clojure, etc. You get all the advantages of speed and libraries without the imo bad language design.

I would bet that C# can match or exceed Java’s speed, productivity, and safety as well.

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