The OpenJDK Porters Group approved by a unanimous vote the proposal submitted by the recently formed Haiku Java Team to port OpenJDK to Haiku. This makes Haiku the first OS platform to be sponsored by the Porters Group, and it means that the port is now officially part of the OpenJDK family of projects endorsed by Sun. The team already has a mailing list and a project home page; a mercurial repository is also on its way. Team lead Bryan Varner gives his latest update here on his blog.
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Member since:2005-07-06
I'm actually a principal software engineer. We write our own Operating System, graphics library, network subsystem, API framework etc. No .NET. No Java.
Do you guys think that prior to 1995, there was a dark ages in software? You know, people were playing games, watching movies, creating media content, doing office work, browsing the net, using client/server achtiectures etc, well before Java and .NET were released to the world.
Member since:2006-01-26
Um... yes
Well, a minority of computer users were even browsing the net prior to 1995 anyway...
In any case, you're arguing for the non-usefulness of Java - a difficult and bold position to uphold. Perhaps in *your* world it's not useful, but it's clearly not a dead technology.
Member since:2005-08-26
Then you're a very, very lucky person.
Since I went to school and got my degree, I have been inundated with Java. In school, nearly 40% of our CS classes used Java to teach with. This is a growing trend, like it or not.
Low-level coding skills are becoming more scare among graduates. Attracting developers to a platform requires the availability to use high-level languages with rich API's and burgeoning communities around them.
The successful Operating Systems that exist on your desktop, servers, and any other computer you come in contact with ship with manuals, marketing, and solid API's. The wildly successful OS's come with API's that are familiar, have a vocal support base, and are reasonably mature.
You can carve out a niche without mainstream high-level support. You'll attract developers who develop for the love of the code. But without major marketing horsepower, without incredibly compelling paradigms, you'll never attain the critical mass of developer interest required to catapult your little platform out of the shadows and into the mainstream.
Getting Java on Haiku isn't just about running Java programs. It's about making Haiku a viable alternative for thousands of CS students, professionals, and hobbyists. Weather you like it or not, there are millions of skilled Java developers. How many skilled C++ developers know the BeAPI? How many people can use C++ & the BeAPI to write code for their day-job? How people many could code in Java for their day-job? How many do?
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The Tizen Greek Community has some screenshots of a very recent build of Tizen running on a Samsung GT-i8800. It looks wholly unremarkable.Joint statement to The Next Web from Microsoft and Google: "Microsoft and YouTube are working together to update the new YouTube for Windows Phone app to enable compliance with YouTube's API terms of service, including enabling ads, in the coming weeks. Microsoft will replace the existing YouTube app in Windows Phone Store with the previous version during this time." Good to know these children stopped acting like little pricks. Can we have full Google support in Windows 8 now, please?
Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr, the microblogging and social networking website, for $1.1 billion USD. Tumblr offers little revenue but lots of eyeballs if Yahoo can monetarize them. Now Yahoo is bidding for Hulu, the streaming video service. After years of ineffective responses while Google, Facebook, and others took large chunks of the online advertising market, Yahoo is fighting back. Can Yahoo reignite the momentum it had at the turn of the century? What do you think?
"Sources have described iOS 7 as 'black, white, and flat all over'. This refers to the dropping of heavy textures and the addition of several new black and white user interface elements." I couldn't be happier.
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"Sony gave the PS4 50% more raw shader performance, plain and simple (768 SPs @ 800MHz vs. 1152 SPs & 800MHz). Unlike last generation, you don't need to be some sort of Jedi to extract the PS4's potential here. The Xbox One and PS4 architectures are quite similar, Sony just has more hardware under the hood. Weâll have to wait and see how this hardware delta gets exposed in games over time, but the gap is definitely there. The funny thing about game consoles is that itâs usually the lowest common denominator that determines the bulk of the experience across all platforms. On the plus side, the Xbox One should enjoy better power/thermal characteristics compared to the PlayStation 4. Even compared to the Xbox 360 we should see improvement in many use cases thanks to modern power management techniques." AnandTech does its usual in-depth thing.
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2005-07-06
in your windows machine probably everything was written in C++. i bet you dont have any application using C# , php or python either. go to a server room for a change. or visit a developer.