Re: Debian Gamers/Developers
On Friday 18 October 2002 15:17, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> Java really is a poor choice for Debian as the implementations of Java
> by Sun and Ibm are proprietary and aren't included in Debian.
>
this is a very valid argument and really the clincher for me. Java IS owned
by Sun and whoever uses it are at Sun's whim.
> Also byte-compiled code is quite slow. Compilling the code kind of
> defeats it's purpose as c++ would be better in that case. IMHO g++ is
> more mature than gjc (gnu java compiler).
>
this however is no longer really true. The Java apps I have used were slow to
launch but behaved just like any other C/C++ program once running. The old
argument about java's speed are as valid as the old arguments against writing
C++ code on Unix. Time and software have changed and the hardware has also
caught up.
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