Now that Java has a fully open sourced implementation in RedHat's IcedTea, Neil McAllister questions whether an open Java even matters: "Even as Java has stretched outward to embrace more concepts and technologies - adding APIs and language features as it goes - newer, more lightweight tools have appeared that do most of what Java aims to do. And they often do it better."
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2006-03-28
There is several things rudiculous - first is obsession with speed. As for client side, your app is either fast enough, or not, so the obsession for C++ like performance is just funny. The second thing is obsession to run various dynamic languages upon Java. Gee - why? Those are better than Java. Java might be well established, supported, having some APIs, but - as an innovation technology it completly failed to fullfill what it was meant for. Dynamic and scripting languages run circels around Java productivity. So save Java's ass, they came-up with JavaFX declarative aproach. Some ppl finally realised, that all that object stuff might actually pretty much suck.
And before you would try to educate me of the OOP advantages - beeing there, done that.