[stackskipton]

Because most of time, understanding the business logic is harder than writing to the code in these industries.

Java is default since it's what taught to many college graduates with added bonus that's taught to most college grads in Indian subcontinent so outsourcing is much easier.

[tracker1]

I think that's generally true of most knowledge domains for anything resembling complex work. Govt, banking, pharma, medical, SaaS all will have a lot of specific requirements that come from deep historical, regulatory or business needs.

I would suggest that the rise of Python is very similar, as it's common in education circles. It's not even that Java as a language is particularly bad, it's how it is used in practice. Though I really do favor C# over Java, there's a similar stigma that comes from the community itself, not the language or it's baseline abilities. And this is a valid criticism.

[evantbyrne]

Getting up to speed on the business logic was arguably the easiest part of my last job where the product was a liquid biopsy. Regardless of industry, you have to learn how to communicate with stakeholders and collect requirements. The existing software being a mess was a much more significant challenge. They also had similar issues on the data science side, where I would argue they did not lean into modern ML nearly enough and instead opted to do the familiar thing.