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…)”
Open Source Java, Part 2
“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…”