I need someone to sell me on Java. I might need to learn it soon for a project but it never before occurred to me that it is something I should use.
I came up in coding in the early 00's. To me Java was that slow, buggy, sometimes dangerous browser plug-in that I think most people loathed?
On Mac OS X at least Java desktop apps were always slow, ugly, and broke the platform UI conventions.
Then Java was that language Google used for Android and then ended up in a long, expensive lawsuit over it with Java's owner Oracle.
It is cross-platform as a big selling point but then people use it to write monolithic server applications where cross-platform capability isn't useful.
It seems to be kinda, sorta open source but don't fuck up with the licenses or Larry's lawyers will come for you. I'd rather just use a fully open language where the community can guide its progress.
I am sincerely not trying to start a flame war or be condenscending. I would like to expand my thinking and understand what I am missing out on.
I came up in coding in the early 00's. To me Java was that slow, buggy, sometimes dangerous browser plug-in that I think most people loathed?
On Mac OS X at least Java desktop apps were always slow, ugly, and broke the platform UI conventions.
Then Java was that language Google used for Android and then ended up in a long, expensive lawsuit over it with Java's owner Oracle.
It is cross-platform as a big selling point but then people use it to write monolithic server applications where cross-platform capability isn't useful.
It seems to be kinda, sorta open source but don't fuck up with the licenses or Larry's lawyers will come for you. I'd rather just use a fully open language where the community can guide its progress.
I am sincerely not trying to start a flame war or be condenscending. I would like to expand my thinking and understand what I am missing out on.