Hello list, I came across this article as subjected, consider me not much a wise guy for such comparisons but I'll generally like to know what Maemo developers think of OSS Java making any impact on Maemo project itself ?
/kevin ---- http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/betaliving/viewblogpost.htm?p=339270756 "Python was originally the language of choice for OLPC but with the announcement of the open sourcing of Java, Blizzard said that the OLPC may move to Java as it is close to native speeds thanks to Java's jit (Just in Time) compiler and Python's interpreter being rather slow. One imagines that with the restricted hardware available that a slow interpreted language is the last thing you want, even if it is an exceedingly easy and powerful one. This is also the first impact I have seen from the open sourcing of Java. ..... What makes these choices far reaching is that if OLPC is successful, then the next generation of programmers will come from an environment that is Java based, uses bundles/images, and is ubiquitous. This is a vast change from the C based, package driven, fringe desktop that we live in today." _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
