- Prunebutt ( @Prunebutt@slrpnk.net ) 25•12 days ago
Holy shit! Can that be any more drawn out and boring?
- abbadon420 ( @abbadon420@lemm.ee ) 13•11 days ago
I think it was amusing. A relic of a simpler time
- smeg ( @smeg@feddit.uk ) English4•11 days ago
It was actually a pretty good Bond parody too!
- abbadon420 ( @abbadon420@lemm.ee ) 2•11 days ago
If you are or ever become a mother, you’ll be smegma
- RonSijm ( @RonSijm@programming.dev ) 24•12 days ago
That laser at the end should have been Java Technology™ ;
You point it at anything, and end up with a huge dumpster fire… Sounds like Java to me
- Scoopta ( @Scoopta@programming.dev ) 15•11 days ago
Honestly modern Java has a lot of really nice features and I think it gets a lot of unfair hate
- schnurrito ( @schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ) 7•11 days ago
“Can you program in Java?”
“Yes, if you pay for the plane ticket.”
- Redkey ( @Redkey@programming.dev ) 6•11 days ago
I first learned about Java in the late 90s and it sounded fantastic. “Write once, run anywhere!” Great!
After I got past “Hello world!” and other simple text output tutorials, things took a turn for the worse. It seemed like if you wanted to do just about anything beyond producing text output with compile-time data (e.g. graphics, sound, file access), you needed to figure out what platform and which edition/version of Java your program was being run on, so you could import the right libraries and call the right functions with the right parameters. I guess that technically this was still “write once, run anywhere”.
After that, I learned just enough Java to squeak past a university project that required it, then promptly forgot all of it.
I feel like Sun was trying to hit multiple moving targets at the same time, and failing to land a solid hit on any of them. They were laser-focused on portable binaries, but without standardized storage or multimedia APIs at a time when even low-powered devices were starting to come with those capabilities. I presume that things are better now, but I’ve never been tempted to have another look. Even just trying to get my machines set up to run other people’s Java programs has been enough to keep me away.
- Midnitte ( @Midnitte@beehaw.org ) English5•11 days ago
Wonder if any of this worked nearly as trouble free as they implied it would.
Java cards certainly did.