7. Oct 2018 23:07 by jwhelan0...@gmail.com <mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com>:


> JAVA has a number of problems.  




Can you give examples that would justify a massive effort of reimplementing 
JOSM?


 

> Many corporations ban its installation citing security issues which restricts 
> the machines that can use JOSM with all its nice tools.




Because that some people will not be able to use JOSM at their work is not one 


that would justify that.




Because people who map at their work, and have banned Java and other 
executables 


are allowed is not high.





> C# apparently is open source.  Visual Studio 2017 is a professional 
> development environment.  Yes it is Windows and I recognise that many prefer 
> one flavour of UNIX or another but I think it is time to think strategically 
> and start work on a replacement for JOSM before we find we can no longer use 
> it.  It can certainly create code which will run on UNIX systems.
> I'm not saying C# is the only way to go.  




What about openjdk?

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