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Have a Nice Steaming Cup of Java 5

Posted by michael on from the milk-and-sugar dept.

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!"

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  1. Re:Java is to C as ... by uberchicken · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    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.