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by dikaiosune 4039 days ago
I remain on the fence myself, but that article mostly argues that it is useable and used in the enterprise, not that it's worthy of use at that project size and scale. I think that article, rather than being a strong technical piece, is a pretty good example of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

Also, it doesn't take much google-fu to find a counterargument from someone apparently reputable:

http://www.quora.com/Why-does-Google-prefer-the-Java-stack-f...