On Tuesday, 5 October 1999, Matthew Hiller writes:
> * Greater cross-platform usability.
Are you sure, does that also hold for free development? I guess you're
going through a lot of trouble before you have a java development
environment set-up? Also I thought there is no free AW/Swing?
I don't know too much about Java, maybe someone can enlighten me. Last
week I asked our local Java guru about the best Java for Linux, and
I was pointed to www.blackdown.org. They do have some java stuff there,
but it's binary releases only (and the don't even have one for my
achitecture).
Apropos cross-platform usability: an environment that's already available,
or very easy to install on linux/unix boxes scores more points than
the availability/maturity of a windows option, imo. How many free software
developers use windows? And, we're only talking about a prototype anyway.
> Disadvantages:
>
> * Slowness
>
> * Java's not as cool
>
> Hmmm. More discussion on the matter while I think things over is
> definitely encouraged.
Jan.
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