On Friday, August 1, 2014 8:56:51 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: > > Problem solved!! If you follow the instructions on this page: > > http://beagleboard.org/project/java/ >
I've updated the page to suggest downloading "Hard Float" for Debian. It would be great if someone could report success/failure with version 8, but I suspect Oracle is continuing to test on BeagleBone Black. > > > You will install the soft floating point version of Java. If you install > the hard floating point version of Java, the problems of loading the native > libraries (e.g. libc6 etc.) go away. > > > > On Friday, August 1, 2014 3:13:36 AM UTC-4, Datenheld wrote: >> >> William, I, too, do think as well that Java lacks support for some >> features, in the JVM, too. >> >> I also don't think Java is the best language these days (speaking of >> languages and not of the runtime). It is well behind the .NET platform when >> it comes to pure languages, apart from Scala, but nobody uses that. C# for >> example is the "better Java" in my opinion. >> >> I think the main reason why people pick up Java is because they know it >> already. It is so widely used in the industry, especially in enterprise >> software, that it is hard to compete with it. Economical factors play a >> role. Because there are so many Java programs, many Java Programmers are >> needed. And because there are many Java programmers, you write your >> programs in Java. After all, when you write software professionally, you >> got to make sure that you actually will always find people to build and >> maintain it. With Java this can be done quite easily. And while I'd prefer >> to code in Scala at work - you simply won't find people who want to learn >> it or who already are proficient in it on the market. For managers, this is >> a major downside. >> > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
