bklaas;174619 Wrote: > 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
Trivially easy? No. Easier than the alternatives? yes. I'm actually a pretty dyed-in-the wool c++ bigot, so I don't give the recommendation to use java lightly (I could chew your ear off about what a complete joke java generics are, but that's awfully OT). But maintaining a gui in a cross platform environment written in c/c++ sounds pretty unpleasant to me. -- totoro squeezebox 3 -> mccormack dna .5 -> audio physic tempo 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ totoro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32104 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
