[twic]

Shitty, poorly-run corporate behemoths (a) are shitty and poorly-run and (b) use Java, because it's an industry standard. You are making the error of thinking that the latter consequence causes the former.

[js8]

Interestingly, the old COBOL/CICS/DB2 stacks do not seem to have this problem (and they are run pretty much only by corporate behemoths). Why is that?

[ajuc]

less hardware to throw around = better (simpler) codebase

[q-big]

> Shitty, poorly-run corporate behemoths (a) are shitty and poorly-run and (b) use Java, because it's an industry standard. You are making the error of thinking that the latter consequence causes the former.

Other programming languages make it "more inconvenient" to apply such managament/programming practices.