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jrockway on July 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter Shifting More Code to JVM, Citing Performa...

jrockway's law: add enough developers to a project and it eventually becomes Java.

aristidb on July 4, 2011 [–]

Except it seems to be Scala here?

aphexairlines on July 5, 2011 | [–]

"In the case of the search team, since they do a lot of work on Lucene, which is Java-based, they have a lot of experience in writing Java code. As such it is more convenient for them to work in Java than Scala or another language."

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