Re: Maybe OT for this list: Programming languages for Fedora?

[Conrad Meyer <konrad tylerc org>]

On Sunday 01 February 2009 01:45:20 am Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le samedi 31 janvier 2009 à 18:28 -0700, Pete Zaitcev a écrit :
> > Java is nice, but WORA is unbearable. So it's rare. I think the only
> > two useful applications we ship are Azureus and RSSowl, and neither
> > is used by Fedora to do Fedora things.
>
> And Eclipse, and all the java server stuff, and bits of OpenOffice.org,
> etc
>
> Java's current sweet spot is middleware, it does that very well, and the
> desktop stuff will come as soon as people are used to the idea we have
> openjdk available in every good distros, and the openjdk/Sun people are
> finished fixing the last legacy desktop warts (such as, font discovery
> and handling hint hint).

Shark[0] will go a long way towards making OpenJDK useful on every arch other 
than x86 and x86_64. But the current status of OpenJDK on PPC and non-x86 
archs is it's vastly slower than GCJ.

[0]: http://gbenson.net/

Regards,
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Conrad Meyer <konrad tylerc org>