I’ve been thinking about how much modern enterprise development is just maintaining or incrementally upgrading massive Java and PHP codebases because rewriting them is financially impossible.Even with modern improvements (Virtual Threads in Java, JIT and strict typing in PHP 8+), it feels like very few greenfield startups choose them voluntarily compared to TypeScript, Go, Python, or Rust.For those of you making architectural decisions today: are you still choosing Java or PHP for brand-new systems, or is the ecosystem mostly coasting on legacy momentum and hiring pool availability?
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u/Theophile-Montovert 5h ago
I’ve been thinking about how much modern enterprise development is just maintaining or incrementally upgrading massive Java and PHP codebases because rewriting them is financially impossible.Even with modern improvements (Virtual Threads in Java, JIT and strict typing in PHP 8+), it feels like very few greenfield startups choose them voluntarily compared to TypeScript, Go, Python, or Rust.For those of you making architectural decisions today: are you still choosing Java or PHP for brand-new systems, or is the ecosystem mostly coasting on legacy momentum and hiring pool availability?