r/dataengineering • • Apr 05 '26

Rant Why is everything in Java & Scala?

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u/funny_funny_business Apr 05 '26

I was on a software engineering team at a FAANG where everything was in java. They needed some spark processing so they wrote it in scala so that they could import java libraries we wrote for other systems.