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First, they do. Second, most software is not only not produced by software startups, it's not even produced by software companies. Do you know how much software a bank, or a credit card company, or a telecom provider, or a car manufacturer (like BMW), or a shipping company (like FedEx), or a defence company (like Boeing), or a large retailer (like Walmart) write in house?

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Wasn't the discussion about greenfield projects? Or by greenfield do you mean internal greenfield projects at existing companies that already use Java?

Greenfield doesn't imply startups, does it?

Greenfield, in my mind, implies "we are not taking any historical factors into account and just pick the best one for the task."

"We are a Java house" is not a Greenfield thing. It's picking what you already use internally.

I used to work on bank, and their java code was very bad, although it works as they have been using same code for 30 years lol.

I've never worked at a place where the code was "good".

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