OSGalaxy: GNOME Language Debates May 13, 2005, 03 :15 UTC (10 Talkback[s]) (6617 reads)
Yay, Language Debates
"Better judgment > /dev/null
"Sorry to see this come up again, but I guess it will be a hot topic at GUADEC, so I may as well lay out the current status as I see it. (Summary: not much has changed...)"
"Unlike Mono, open source Java faces a big problem: there are a number of free commercial Java runtimes available for every operating system that matters. The group of people who would have contributed to a free java to scratch an itch are gone. From those who remain another large chunk will switch in a heartbeat to a commercial implementation the moment they run into missing features, scalability issues, the lack of a moving GC or a hard to debug problem..."
