I had my try with Warpzilla, the OS/2 Warp 4 port of Mozilla. Prereleases of
M17 crashed on takeoff, and after reading about how slow the final M17 was, I
gave up on it. I noticed the bloated requirements for the Linux version, and
wondered what was supposed to be the advantage over Netscape Communicator.
Warpzilla download was 14 MB.
Aren't both Java and Javascript interpreted languages as is Perl? C, C++, and
Ada are highly portable languages with compilers.
I believe the Visual (MS) and Visual Age (IBM) compilers/development systems
tend to generate bloated code when one "programs" visually. But the visual
compilers might be good for producing in-house applications cheaper than buying
software or paying outside consultants to produce custom software.
Maybe there is a future for Arachne. People who don't have enough space to
really install Linux can use Basic Linux or something similar.
