howmanyidiots wrote:
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On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 03:38:22 GMT, df******@mindspring.com wrote:
>>Even if there is no Java hardware, could not a Java OS be
run by a Java interpreter? Or is there a fundamental problem?
I've read that device drivers are hard to write in Java.
Dave Feustel
Its simple.. Because for all its portability, Java is a big slow
fuckin pig. Nobody can name a single client app that performs worth a
fuck, much less an OPERATING system. There was a time, ten years ago,
when Sun had alliances with hardware vendors that mattered. But due
to recent technologies, I can tell you from 30+ years experience in
this business, Sun no longer matters and Java doesn't matter for much
longer. Its performance sucks because it tries to be cross platform
when no other platforms matter.
I had heard that a number of years ago Sun tried to design a Java chip to
execute Java directly. Then, it got railroaded into supporting C, since
they already had an OS written in C. So, the Java Chip never really took
off, and I suppose the same would be said for the OS because why should you
rewrite all that code when you have it already written?
I have, for the most part, given up on Java. There was a time I made 6
figures being a Java architect, but those days are long gone.
Not to start a flame war, but these days I write apps in Python and PHP. I
really don't see any advantages Java could possibly offer to make me want
to develop in it anymore, except maybe for an applet -- which would
probably be better written in flash, anyway.
Java's usefulness has come and gone, I'm afraid to say. You should check out
Python -- very powerful, lots of support, and minus the obtuse overhead of
Java. Not to mention lambda functions, metaclasses, and functional
programming. Just for starters.
Try Python. You'll never want to go back to Java, ever.
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