Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th May 2008 12:53 UTC, submitted by Adam S
A few weeks ago, Ars published part one in a series called "From Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows user's conversion to Mac OS X". In this series, Peter Bright details why he believes "Windows is dying, Windows applications suck, and Microsoft is too blinkered to fix any of it". Part one dealt with the history of both Windows and the Mac OS, and part two deals with .Net, the different types of programmers, and Windows Vista.
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I am a Java developer and that too not an OS nor desktop app writer. I work on enterprise applications and I can see where this author is coming from. As much as I like my work programming in Java can be frustrating because of its verbosity and boiler plate code. Granted that is not what the author was talking about directly but I definitely understand him about the deprecation stuff he was talking about. Java is chock full of those...still its getting faster and faster...and better...so thats all I can really ask. Too bad Java is not performant as C/C++ resulting in fast desktop apps or else it would really be a nice language for most developers I think...though I think Java bytecode can be compiled to .exe nowadays wiht some third party tool.