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Oracle have broken and delayed releases of Java so some people can get slimmer binaries? Hardly seems like a good trade off when storage is the cheapest it’s ev

• blinkingled 9y ago
  It's not about storage. Most desktops don't have a JRE installed and downloading the full non-modular JRE and installing it before being able to run the program is a hassle compared to providing a stripped down, self sufficient, linked version of the app that's one third in size.
  • erik_seaberg 9y ago
    End result: install nine apps, end up with three variously outdated copies of the JRE, none of which benefit the tenth app I install. It's frustrating how we're wallowing in problems that had already been solved for most of my career.
    • blinkingled 9y ago
      With JNLP you could presumably keep all those JREs updated automatically - no issues other than storage which isn't.
  • i386 9y ago
    Who cares about desktop apps? Most Java development is done on the server where the size of your runtime isn't a constraint. Breaking reflection, delaying language features, releases, etc is a very poor tradeoff for the module system that has been delivered.
    • blinkingled 9y ago
      Well, now you can care about Java desktop apps - that's kind of the point of all this :) And server apps don't really switch that fast to newest Java release. Only now we're seeing JDK7 based things for example.