java bye-bye!!!

[maryamq56]

I heard microsoft is closing support forjava.
WHy??

I personally think that microsoft is doing so to promote its own version of java under the name c#. C# is similar to java in many ways.

SO any way, for now, is java going bye-bye

[filburt1]

Java is made by Sun. Don't use MS Java, because they are trying to make it more Windows-proprietary. And don't use C#, because no sane professional does. :)

[gwdash]

Agreed!!!!

Sun isn't going away, so neither is Java!

[Radames]

Hey Filburt is there somewhere I can know more about programmer's opinions on C#?

[filburt1]

Originally posted by Radames
Hey Filburt is there somewhere I can know more about programmer's opinions on C#?

I seriously wouldn't use it. Not that many people do and it is just a non-crossplatform version of Java.

[Dillinger4]

Microsoft is just trying to acquire market share with their new "multiplatform language" C#. I dont think we are going to see Java going anywhere anytime soon. What Microsoft is trying to do is a good thing. It is a natural progression for any language
to include these features:

The modern design of C# eliminates the most common C++ programming errors. For example:

Garbage collection relieves the programmer of the burden of manual memory management.

Variables in C# are automatically initialized by the environment.

Variables are type-safe.

I think one of Javas weak points lies within it IDE. Minimum memory requirments are 128Mb ram. So just to get FORTE up and
running it takes too long. Plus i have yet to see a fast and painless way to efficiently bundle and deploy an application written in Java. Such as like Visual Basic has.

[filburt1]

It's called InstallAnywhere.

Did you attend JavaOne this summer? Java is taking off.