On Wednesday, 13 August 2014 at 08:06:46 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Tuesday, 12 August 2014 at 09:57:28 UTC, Chris wrote:
What happens, if one day Google says that they will abandon
Go, cos it didn't bring the desired results? Just like
companies tend to abandon languages and frameworks at random.
Remember Google translate? Java Swing is to be replaced by
JavaFX. Now Objective-C is becoming obsolete. There are loads
of examples. People flock to technologies backed by big
companies, because they think it's safer to do so. But again
and again, companies just drop technologies as they see fit.
Open source has been more reliable. Most frameworks still
exist (think of all the Linux stuff).
Isn't swing open source?
Only partially.
There are some differences between the OpenJDK and Oracle's
commercial implementation, due to licensing issues from third
party code.
Not to mention there are multiple Java vendors anyway.
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Paulo
