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in my healthcare experience (claims processing, medtech) Java existed for sure but it was always as a "legacy" system they were moving away from.

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Until quite recently, the reasonably feature complete open source libraries available for things like DICOM or HL7 were old C/C++ libraries, Java, and C#. That often created a choice between Java and C#. People not doing Windows based development tend not to be interested in C#.

Cross platform C# is certainly getting huge in healthcare and medtech recently though.

Is it? My experience from 2014 - 2018, was that C# was only used in the lifesciences software for Windows, and as wrappers around device drivers mostly written in COM.

Everything that was done on the backend side was done in Java, although there were some exceptions for .NET deployments.

So we ended up with mixed skills teams where depending on the ticket, you would be coding Java or C#.

IME this decade a lot of people are using C# for Azure 'serverless' deployments.

What were they moving towards?

claims processing - TypeScript, lots of ETL tools with Go.

medtech - .NET and TypeScript.

We embedded angular in our old Java client for hospitals. The user thinks he just opens a new window, but it's chrome in Java, which opens angular frontend, for our Java backend.

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