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Gosling Returns To The Java Fold

Posted by timothy on from the it's-a-sequel dept.

MemRaven writes "In an article on CNet News, James Gosling reveals that he's returning to the Java Tools group at Sun. The article touches briefly on the Eclipse situation as well as some vague statements about what he's doing in the future. Since he's been gone from the Java fold for a while, this might spell some definite changes in how Sun treats its stepchild."

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  1. Eclipse is a slow-moving truck by schmaltz · · Score: 0, Troll

    Designed to have massive loads heaped upon it... and move slowly. Am I the only one who remembers when you could run a relatively complex IDE on a 300mhz box without needing to shut down Mozilla or your mp3 player?? Or even a 100mhz machine? What is it with Eclipse, does blinking the cursor take all that much power? Sheesh.

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    1. Re:Eclipse is a slow-moving truck by axxackall · · Score: 0, Troll
      You should never use Java if you don't have enough resources for it. Java was specially designed for embedded devices with several GHz CPUs and few GB of RAM.

      For a regular old 300 MHz PC with 128MB of RAM I can recommend either Python/Tkinter or Tcl/Tk for a language and Emacs for IDE.

      As for 100MHz PC with 32MB - I doubt that Mozilla can make on it.

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