Yea - I figured sooner or later someone would try to make the point
that "there's not much in Java".
But where's the puck? And if you want to get technical, then lets!
I am interested in the scripting support and compiler interfaces for
the JVM. While Java as a language is declining, Java as a platform is
red hot. The OpenJDK has fueled the fire, and the Linux world has
found that maybe Java is OK.
My Point: The puck is JRuby and the OpenJDK JVM.
If this is not the puck, then what? Javascript in Safari?
On Oct 26, 2007, at 3:08 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
My point: Apple had time to beef up other language support and if,
in fact, resources where constrained, why devote time to Python and
Ruby when Java is still orders of magnitude bigger?
Why? To quote Jobs' quote of Wayne Gretzky: "I skate to where the
puck is going to be, not where it is." There's lots of COBOL in the
world, too, and Apple's support for it is pathetic.
So how about a technical discussion here? I see little or no
technical advantage in the use of Java 6 on the Mac platform, barring
bug fixes. What in the world is in Java 6 that suddenly makes it so
vital?
Bill
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