Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

[Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@alectenharmsel.com>]

On 8/7/2016 10:06 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> I have no idea where James gets his information from, but I suspect it's
> a niche market where uni students do "clustering" - whatever that is.

Many of the new frameworks/servers that are developed for running or 
managing clusters are written in Java, which is what he's referring to 
as far as I can tell. Hadoop, spark, hive, pig, marathon, cloudstack, 
zookeeper, and many more (see http://www.apache.org for plentiful 
examples) are all JVM-based languages.

University students do not touch on anything related to clustering until 
graduate level courses (I just graduated from the University of 
Michigan), unless they work on that stuff as a job or in their spare time.

> The interesting apps out there are mostly running python, go and
> (sometimes) lua. And that's what I observe in my day job -
> business/mobile ISP.
>

Yes and no, depending on what you find interesting. Plenty of web 
applications are written in python or ruby, but I think it's safe to 
assume that most high-traffic organizations have mounds of Java and 
C/C++ services on the backend for various reasons.

Alec