“No, we’re telling everyone we are using Java”
Recently I was curious why so much big cloud software is written in Java. Cassandra, Kafka, and Neo4j are some examples. I don&#x27;t have a lot of experience in the area myself (embedded software engineer) so I put it down the JVM providing straightforward platform independence and a consistent API, and the (assumed) simplicity deploying .jar files. This anecdote suggests it may be a less deliberate choice and that Java is just the de facto language. Does anyone have deeper insight on this this trend that they might be able to share?<p>My apologies for this post being a little tangential.