I agree with Jason completely. I'm involved in several non trivial
Java/Swing application projects and
the need to test/debug everywhere is minimal. Mostly it just works.
What C / Perl gui toolkit would work accross Linux/Mac OS/Windows?
What GUI toolkit would even passably make the application look native
enough?
Swing is not perfect, but mostly good enough. And this is just GUI, how
about
file io, network io, endiandness issues, memory management etc etc....
both
at development and deployment level.
I think we should skip this trolling, I suspect this was sent just to
inflame people,
just ignore it.
br Kusti
Jason Proctor <email@hidden> 27.8.2008 10:50:42 >>>
troll.
my company deploys a non-trivial Java Swing application on Mac,
Windows, and Linux. i develop on Mac, and i don't even have to test
on Windows and Linux because experience has told me i know it's going
to work. the JDK is subject to the JCK, which ensures that anything
claiming to be Java has to pass a stringent test before it's allowed
to claim that it's JDK compliant.
suggesting that Perl or C is in any way platform independent is pure
bollocks.
do you have any actual experience to back up your claim? i suspect
not.
Don't you know the statement "Java, Compile once, Debug everywhere..."
?
The only reason you need java for mac is for old applets or to
support the college community.
No person (no sane person) is going to develop a complete program in
java.
If you want full platform independency then you should write your
programs in perl or C...
