Re:“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996)
by agumonkey on Thursday January 06, 2022 @10:48AM
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I rarely run into client side programs being better (or even interesting) due to java/jvm. Eclipse was quite a clusterf.. (at least when I left that side in 2008). Note that I'm not anti Java. I just think its course was fluctuating across time and "success" is really a strange term. The rare times people were happy about Java was the advanced JIT.
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Re:“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996)
by simion314 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @11:22AM
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Minecraft Java Edition IMO has this giant community because it is easy to mod and this is because of Java since the devs did not create modding tools. I am sure it was much easy for one person to develop such a complex game in a manged language too , from my experience with desktop apps the ones I made in Adobe AIR using AS3 had a lot fewer bugs and fewer support tickets and we got cross platform too.
I also worked on a Java screen sharing in browser web conference solution back when this was not possible with native stuff or with Flash, if you understood the language you could get good performance.
Re:“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996)
by whimsicalism on Thursday January 06, 2022 @11:12AM
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IntelliJ/Pycharm?
Re:“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996)
by agumonkey on Thursday January 06, 2022 @11:58AM
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IntelliJ might be better than Eclipse/Netbeans but it's still not the massive success Java planned. A few exception in the IT side of the world.