On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 09:01 +0000, Chris via Digitalmars-d wrote: […] > The main thing that put me off Java was not so much the fact that > you're restricted to OOP and that it's verbose etc., but that it > caused all sorts of problems when shipping the actual programs. > "Write once run everywhere" is a myth, if you ask me. D is much > closer to that than Java. In the end we encountered so many > problems that I dumped Java for cross platform development (and > for development in general). Nobody in the Java world ever talks > about this, but cross platform doesn't really work (apart from > running simple programs). […]
Java is not really an object-oriented programming language. OK it has
classes, inheritance, and method calls, but it is not founded on message
passing. For example:
a + b
is not a message in Java as it is in C++, Python, etc.
Write Once Run Anywhere (WORA) has been a known fallacy since about
1995 ;-) Versions of things really are a bit of a
dependency/configuration nightmare. Maven Central and Gradle help
somewhat for the JVM, but then there is the shared library nightmare for
all other platforms.
--
Russel.
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