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Every language that catches on in the market builds up "cruft" over time. Popularity has a down-side as features are tacked on to keep up with the e-joneses. B

by tabtab 8y ago

Every language that catches on in the market builds up "cruft" over time. Popularity has a down-side as features are tacked on to keep up with the e-joneses. But a bigger problem is that Oracle is hell-bent on finding ways to sue profits out of ANY Java user, per (ongoing) API fiasco. Who wants to risk being a target of lawsuit greed? True, Microsoft could start doing the same with Dot-Net languages and API's, but so far they are (mostly) behaved. I'll side with the sleeping sharks over the circling sharks.

haglin 8y ago
Just use OpenJDK.
- tabtab 8y ago
  Either it uses the same API interfaces as Oracle's version, in which case it's a lawsuit risk, OR it has different API interfaces, making actual code incompatible with that written for the Oracle version: a de-facto fork.