totoro;174608 Wrote: > > But the user already has to install a server, so why not give them a > native app to run the thing on? I'm not a huge java fan, but doing it > in java would make the platform support relatively easy. >
Is cross-platform support in java easy? I remember in the 90s when Java started coming into the buzz as the killer new cross-platform language. I was truly excited about it. Since then, it's done almost nothing but give me fits. Softsqueeze, while a nicely written app, is not worth running on my linux machine; java-based web apps almost universally stink; the swing interface makes me soooo sad, yaddah yaddah. There are notable exceptions to this, the most prominent in my head being Azureus, which is a downright fantastic bittorrent client that really is cross-platform. I have lots of friends that are solely java programmers and they really are jazzed about working in that language. I just haven't seen the benefits that it was touting a decade ago come to fruition. Programs in any language are only as good as their designers, but I see a far higher percentage of apps written in java that turn out to be garbage. cheers, #!/ben -- bklaas "the Nokia770 skin guy" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32104 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
