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At the risk of sounding a bit ridiculous, good for them. The less Java, the better.

• thebluesky 14y ago
  > The less Java, the better. That's a pretty broad generalization. As Java+Scala programmer I personally seldom use, see or write Java applets. Advocating against the use of Java in general is just silly however. Java (+other JVM languages) is very well suited to backend systems, and with the addition of modern web frameworks like Play it's pretty good choice for frontend work too. Java (+other JVM languages) is used heavily by companies like Google, Amazon, Twitter etc. > At the risk of sounding a bit ridiculous You do indeed sound ridiculous, especially since it's just Apple no longer maintaining their own Java plugin, but letting customers install the official plugin from Oracle, just like customers do for every other major operating system.
  • notatoad 14y ago
    Java is a perfectly accpetable language, as long as i can't tell when an app is using it. Server-side java is great, android is great, but as long as shitty programmers keep writing java apps that make use of some awful GUI toolkit and require the user to install a JRE, people are going to keep hating java. In many cases, the fact that an app is java based can be directly blamed for a poor user experience. sure, it's not the language's fault, but it is what it is.