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[Michael_S]

I ran it for a while a few years ago. I don't like the UI that much, at least at a time it makes it hard to categorize your content.

[Michael_S]

I am not a lawyer, of course, but my understanding is that Oracle was able to sue Google for implementing Java APIs and, crucially, using the Java name...

[Michael_S]

To back up Apteryx - the Guix package manager and distribution is under active development with dozens of contributors. I only have it in a VM and I...

[Michael_S]

It's likely they're not intentionally screwing this up, they just haven't done a great job keeping their documentation up to date as their software evolves....

[Michael_S]

I love Clojure the language, but the startup time is awful.

On the other hand, you can connect a REPL to a running Clojure program and add...

[Michael_S]

Graal gives you much faster startup and much smaller file size (since it only bundles what you use and not the entire Java standard library). But it...

[Michael_S]

I knew some of that already, but thanks for the rest (no sarcasm). Maybe Java use in the wild will evolve in sane directions thanks to the features introduced...

[Michael_S]

C and C++ developers writing code for the Linux kernel, Windows, Mac, Chromium, OpenSSL, the Java Virtual Machine, and everything else routinely make...

[Michael_S]

I think Java made an enormous leap forward with version 8 (lambdas, streams, default method implementations in interfaces). And releases since then have...

[Michael_S]

I've spent the last fifteen years working in java and I *do* hate it. But crucially, I don't hate it for performance reasons and it bugs the hell out...

[Michael_S]

OpenJDK is licensed GPLv2, you only have to pay Oracle if you're using the Oracle JDK....

[Michael_S]

So web applications performing data operations are not 'real computing'? Since when? Why don't you announce that to Google, Amazon, Netflix, Amazon, and...

[Michael_S]

You can use them all with JNI. But not all high performance is embarrassingly parallel processing. You want to say, "Java and parallelized program...

[Michael_S]

Java has added some new Garbage Collectors since JDK8, it might be interesting to try the benchmarks using the different collectors to see what changes...

[Michael_S]

I will look into that, thanks.

[Michael_S]

Bruce Schneier is considered a leading expert in information security, and for what it's worth Luke_Wolf is making his arguments. That is, security is...

[Michael_S]

Amen.

(I'm an atheist, but the metaphor seemed appropriate.)...

[Michael_S]

If you look in a lot of the Apache projects that involve Java, you have classes that extend Foo, Foo extends Bar, Bar extends Baz, Baz extends Quux, and...

[Michael_S]

Java pays my bills too. One of the things I wonder is whether inheritance was a mistake. Everyone says inheritance is fine if used properly. But every...

[Michael_S]

A package manager database seems like a perfect fit for a relational database. I don't know what model they adopted for their internal, but I can think...