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Re:Replacing Python by mercurial on Sunday September 29, 2013 @09:15AM (#6465083)
Re dependency: you probably have a point on Windows, but it's your choice to use an OS without a package manager to keep things up to date. I don't know about Mac but on Linux it is a non issue.

That said it does not do well for desktop apps due to slow startup, high memory use and lack of native toolkit. It does much better as a server side runtime.

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Re:Replacing Python by jamespo on Sunday September 29, 2013 @12:58PM (#6465708)
Although one of the best desktop RSS readers (RSSOwl) and two of the best IDEs (Eclipse & IntelliJ) are written in Java.
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Re:Replacing Python by mercurial on Sunday September 29, 2013 @03:51PM (#6466264)
Of these, I have only tried Eclipse. While certainly more full-featured out of the box, its speed, especially at startup, is really nothing to boast about when compared to Visual Studio.
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Re:Replacing Python by alextingle on Sunday September 29, 2013 @05:12PM (#6466540)
When I see people arguing about which is the best IDE, I think of this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d-c4INM-Wk
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