[H-GEN] Java vs Anything flame war (?)
Andrae Muys
andrae.muys at braintree.com.au
Wed Feb 4 02:04:17 EST 2004
ben.carlyle at invensys.com wrote:
>>Anti-java but pro-C#... amusing as the two platforms are close enough
>>that there is no rational reason to differentiate to that degree.
> I've seen sun's java version of their old workshop software (SunOne or
> some such). If you've seen the same then you'll probably understand when I
> say "If sun can't get java GUI apps working, how can I expect to do so?"
I can do better than that; I have written java GUI apps before :).
Swing is a nice enough API, but getting decent performance is very hard.
OTOH I've heard good things about SWT; its philosophy is going to
avoid the worst performance headaches of swing; and if the performance
of eclipse is anything to go by they have managed to avoid any
showstoppers of their own.
> I'm currently involved in a technology assessment for the future HMI
> direction of my group. So far QT is the stand-out choice.
QT is nice, especially if you are a C++ shop. However technically I
dislike their introduction of their own pre-processor; and as I am not
particularly fond of C++, it's close ties to C++. From a business
perspective I have serious concerns with the involvement of Canopy Group
in TrollTech.
Andrae
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Andrae Muys <andrae.muys at braintree.com.au>
Engineer Braintree Communications
"Now, allowing captured continuations to be inspected and altered at
runtime (including binding mutation, complete rebinding of scopes,
and call tree mutation)... *that* is really evil. And, I should
point out, quite useful." - Dan Sugalski
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