It's the lowest common denominator. It's the same reason I haven't been able to ...

jrs95 on June 2, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Storm 2.0

It's the lowest common denominator. It's the same reason I haven't been able to adopt Kotlin at work. Everyone acknowledges it would be better, but "everyone knows Java". Seems almost like "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" to me.

cutler on June 2, 2019 [–]

... or, worse, "everyone here uses Java <= 8".