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Re:If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy by 10098 on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @08:14PM (#6524842)
Many painful minutes spent with slow-like-sloth-taking-a-shit Java desktop software lead me to believe that your statement isn't entirely true.
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Re:If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy by threeseed on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @09:33PM (#6525156)
Your ignorance of the difference between server and client side Java leads me to believe that you're probably wrong.
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Re:If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy by sliverstorm on Thursday October 10, 2013 @01:16AM (#6525771)
This usually seems to be due to bad code, or bad GUI libraries (which Java seems to be the king of)
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Re:If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy by pjmlp on Thursday October 10, 2013 @01:48AM (#6525871)
And bad developers using those libraries.
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Re:If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy by artsrc on Thursday October 10, 2013 @02:18AM (#6525972)
The fact that this sluggishness is not present in Visual Basic programs implies this is the library, not the programmers or the language.
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Re:If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy by danieldk on Thursday October 10, 2013 @02:17AM (#6525968)
IntelliJ, which is a large Java Swing application, certainly works fine and quick on all of my machines.
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