From: Doug Sutherland (wearable_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 2002-02-04 08:15:45
One other comment re Java. IMO Sun really got off track with
this language/platform. They are trying to make it into the
answer for every problem on the planet, and that's not what
is was supposed to be. It keeps on getting bigger and bigger,
every time I look. Swing has become bloatware. And sun does
not even know how to manage it anymore. That's part of the
reason I left sun. IBM is actually more clued in with Java,
and also linux. Big blue has spent $2 billion on these two
in the past year. I will try Java for NF just because I
still like it, but I think it's safe to say that it's not
very good for GUI for NF. It shines in networking and also
in multihreading. There is potential in those hardware VMs
but obviously nobody will be doing that here.
-- Doug (Java'd till the cows came home)
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