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Have a Nice Steaming Cup of Java 5
wap writes "The language/VM/religion that everyone loves to hate is now serving another cup: Java 1.5 is ready for download. The new features of 1.5 have been discussed here before. I, for one, welcome our new virtual machine overlord. I have been using the release candidate, and startup times are noticeably faster, as is overall performance, and the new features like typesafe collections and static imports are great to have. Let the Java flames begin!"
How much confidence do you have in a product that has 5 major releases before it hits 2.0?
Still ain't as fast as the slowest C# implementation.
Is it really Java that we love to hate, or is it the failure to live up to the "write-once, run-anywhere hype"?
...why not just use .NET?
yeah
in terms of memory and cpu usage is even better
-- Segmentation fault. Core dumped
This is now, what, the third Name for Java.
First there was just plain Java
Then there was Java 2
Now Java 5?
Where did Java 3 and 4 go?
I personally can't wait to see Java X, or better, when they get that far instead of calling it Java, they'll call it Java eXpresso. Wait,that's kind of a cool name...
*runs to the patent office.*
"Don't sweat the petty stuff and don't pet the sweaty stuff." -- by an Unknown Wise man.
Don't forget the competition from C#. Java, after all, has been in the doldrums for years until Microsoft stepped up and in one leap jumped right over the sloth-like Java. Now, at least, Sun has to make a token effort at making Java less sucky.
Not that they have much of a chance. Not only is C# a nicer language than Java, but the VM is more flexible. Frankly it's game over as far as non-zealots are concerned. We even have the CLR and C# on Linux thanks to Mono. Java is dead for everyone but those companies who bought into Sun's bullshit a couple of years ago and moved critical infrastructure onto it -- suckers.
Coffee or pile-of-poo?
Cheers, Sally.
Oooo but developing in C# and VS.NET with all
that intellisense is developer paradise!!
built-in installshield stuff, winforms. luvverly.
If Java is a cup of coffee, C#/VS is a cup of
sweet sweet chocolate.
Yes Sun, what's wrong with you!??! You know that the poor Micro$oft users can't follow more than one link. Everything for them needs to be, big and flashing (preferably in Aero). In fact, you should make a Java Update page that will only run in IE. Oh, and Automagic Updates. That way, the poor users don't have to click anything at all.
It's a trap you stupid morons. Just hand Bill Gates your wallet now and save some time later.
Java, and my teacher, can kiss my ass. C++ is the way to go! I mean come on wtf mates?!
So, how Java is not a real language, genius?
Honestly, not to start a flame war, I think most people who have used Java and C# would disagree.
I'm a full-time Java developer, have been for ages, but Java (even 1.5) has a ways to go to be as nice to work in as C#.
1.5 is a BIG jump forward, but I find it hard to believe you could be so pro Java/anti-C# if you've ever done any real development in both. At best you could six of one/half dozen of the other between them... but its hard to imagine someone thinking Java was that much better.