brave of netflix to not only come out with a 'detection as code' tool but to have that code be in java
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I mean I'm fine with it tbh, I'll take Java over most languages. It's ugly, and a very odd choice for D&R, but I honestly think it's about 1000x better than Python in virtually every way for 99% of use cases.
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It just feels like it would be a very unpopular choice. But I guess Netflix is very Java heavy.
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Java doesn't lock you into using Java as a language. It's painless to use Kotlin instead even in projects already heavily using Java. IntelliJ IDEA (or Android Studio) will happily convert it file-by-file. It might not be idiomatic to start but it's not that hard to clean it up.
Netflix was heavily using Scala but it clearly didn't displace Java. They're increasingly adopting Kotlin and that has a much better chance of displacing it. I'm pretty sure they must use as much Python as they do Java based on what they publish and their job postings anyway.
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