Thanks Tim for the reminders on some of that stuff and the updates. A good bit of it brings back some memories.
On the community-visualweb, I keep thinking we can somehow get such an effort current/right. On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 5:00 AM Tim Boudreau <niftin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > nb.cluster.javacard > > > > I'm the primary (only?) author of Javacard support, and as far as I can > tell, Javacard is dead as a doornail. I see Oracle is still plugging away > at it - press release from January on the web site. But I can't say I've > heard of anyone using it in years. As a demo of how to write plugins for > things with weird deployment models for JVMs that lack java.lang.String and > floating point numbers, it might have some use, but that's it. Kill it. > > > > nb.cluster.mobility > > > > That was some fantastic stuff in its day; there was some visual designer > code in there that perhaps could be repurposed more generally. Not sure > that Java ME has any life left in it, unless it's being used in some > peculiar corner of the industry. > > > > community-ruby > > > > Ruby support is worth keeping, if it's even somewhat working. That has a > real audience, and I recall the support was once pretty good. > > > > community-soa > > > > Misguided junk to sell to managers who don't understand technology, so they > can torture their employees with it. > > > > community-uml > > > > Ditto. > > > > community-visualweb > > > > And so must die another attempt at live-editing in an emulated browser. > > -Tim > > -- > http://timboudreau.com > -- Carl J. Mosca
