Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 25th Mar 2007 17:44 UTC, submitted by suka
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RE[2]: Go Miguel! Rant warning.
by Stock on Mon 26th Mar 2007 11:39
in reply to "RE: Go Miguel! Rant warning."
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Great sense of humour.
I'm just wondering, how many other things "Rock"? or "Rock hard" even? You sound like an expert in the area so maybe you could enlighten us. ;-)
Oh and for the most part I agree the projects you mentioned are all worthwhile.





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2006-11-04
That rant was a notch too trollish, so let me clarify some bits. It looks like I poured crap on some really great tech there. I didn't mean it like that.
1) Gcj - Yup, really cool. But not really taking the OSS un*x desktop anywhere. IMHO. But it rocks.
2) Gtk themes for java - Any work in this direction is great! Sorely needed, hugely wanted. Still not good enough. But it rocks. Or will rock.
3) I wrote that Kaffe represented a time-sink. Wrong. Edit it out. Kaffe is beyond awesome. Maybe just not a great hope for a desktop-level OSS runtime.
4) Java in general - No other language/runtime in the history of man have such great development environments as Java has today, free or for money. Not smalltalk, eiffel, .Net, C++. Do I have to mention it rocks? Rocks hard even? But not in the area of desktop apps. Nope.
(note - I don't believe in the edit function)
Edited 2007-03-25 20:48