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True. Java makes it trivial to write cross-plattform code. But we are no longer in the 90s. There are plenty of cross-plattform C++ libraries available that mak
by vaylian 8y ago
True. Java makes it trivial to write cross-plattform code. But we are no longer in the 90s. There are plenty of cross-plattform C++ libraries available that make it easy to write cross-plattform programs. I do not think that this is such a major argument any longer.
And yes, Java is very feature-conservative.
- pjmlp 8y agoTry to compile those C++ libs on Windows and run them on Linux, without recompiling them. As strange as it may seem to you, that is how a large set of corporations work.
- DannyB2 8y agoAlso I would point out that your compiled Java binary apps might run just fine on a platform not existing at the time it was compiled. Example: I wrote a Mandelbrot program compiled as a double-clickable JAR. Nearly a decade later I find that it runs just fine, albeit more slowly, on . . . a Raspberry Pi.
- jayd16 8y agoYou might not think it's a valid argument but the thing that you're missing is that others do not want to write cross platform C++. They want to write nicer Java and that's C#.