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I'm personally mad at Doug Cutting for perpetuating Java. Java is a virus. If Lucene and Hadoop were written in C/C++ you'd be able to easily use them from bas
by kbd 16y ago
I'm personally mad at Doug Cutting for perpetuating Java.
Java is a virus. If Lucene and Hadoop were written in C/C++ you'd be able to easily use them from basically any language. Because they're written in Java, it forces the rest of your code to live in Java land as well.
- nickolai 16y agothere is a C++ port of Lucene (named CLucene iirc) Not sure if there is such thing for Hadoop though.
- timr 16y agoYeah, but because it's not the main project, the CLucene port is perpetually the red-headed stepchild. It runs several versions behind the Lucene trunk, and therefore, you have to choose to ignore its disadvantages. ...which is a shame, because I agree with the OP that the choice of Java was a mistake for a large, high-performance system.
- regularfry 16y agoThink of it from his point of view: if you've already got a large chunk of code and working systems in Java-land that you want to strap a text indexer to, what language would you pick?