* hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> [21.08.2013. @16:48:10 +0200]: > On 08/20/2013 05:12 PM, Randy Westlund wrote: > > I've heard several people mention jitsi, but was surprised to find that > > it's not in the portage tree. > > > > Jitsi is written in java and thus by design buggy, bloated and hard to > maintain.
What a categorical opinion! Developers are writing code and are making bugs, whatever the language they use. I am pretty sure I am able to write buggy, bloated and hard to maintain with Haskell, Ada, Java or any other language… It is really easy to criticize the programming language instead of reviewing the development methods. The main problem of writing an ebuild for a Java application comes from bad habits in the Java world: people are usually distributing all libraries and the program in a big ball of mud. It is great for Windows users or for users who do not use a real packages manager, but it needs lot of work to have clean packages. Regards, JC
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