You're being too harsh on the topic. Most people didn't really use java because of platform independence. In the beginnings of Java, applets were the killer feature. You could easily deliver fat client software with the webbrowser. It wasn't that much about platform independence. Java is a lot more than platform independence.
Platform independence hast its limits by design. When you want to be independent of something, you need abstractions. Abstractions are leaky, though. When you then want to do something, which is not common to all(!) platforms you support, then you cannot generalize it. Or you make it possible but then you depend upon the details of the platform. Those details are for example the native library that PureJavaComm delivers. >also it is not very proficient especially considering you've spent how many days here trying to troubleshoot an issue that should never have existed Well, I'm arguing against that by saying, that you will potentially have the same problem in every language that uses a runtime and does not compile to native code. >I could go on all day, but THIS is one reason why Java is a horrible language. People are taught to write sloppy / crappy code like this, and told that it's fine / good. It's not fine, when you break a key feature in a language. Why is it a key feature to communicate with low level peripherals? Once you go beneath a leaky abstraction (and every abstraction is leaky), you will have tight dependencies. You cannot say the code is crappy. The things you want to do are simply not possible without writing native code. When you choose to write such code in Java, it is by design and not necessarily crappy. It's all about the API for Java. I could take a native i386 lib with a python API, pull it over to arm and then complain that it does not work as well. This is basically what you are doing currently, no offense meant. >Anyway, do not take the above personally. but please do try to expand your horizons some. Well, personally, I am proficient in quite a lot languages. So I feel like I can judge languages quite well. Java has its flaws, but as a language, it is quite decent. You can write bad code in any language and Java code is not necessarily bad code, just because it breaks platform independence (reasoning: see above). I like Java because it's object oriented and does not need extensive resource managing like C++. I can handle complexity with it much better, than in C. And since I use it at work, I am getting results very fast. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
