Hacker News Reader

>The customer does not care what technology is used to build a product.

That is not universally true. For example, the American military used to require the use of Ada. This is no longer the case but I doubt they would buy software built with Pharo.

In the same way big corporations often insist on Java, or at least a JVM-based solution.

View on HN

that's because they buy development, not products. I've worked in some big corporations who enforced Java internally, but they do not care about products they also use (best example is office tools, but I've seen many "business oriented" products developed in other languages: i.e. first versions of rational suite -yes, I'm old- were made also in smalltalk and nobody ever cared about, etc. etc. etc.)

Reply on news.ycombinator.com