Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho: Java sucks!

Due to certain circumstances, I am again programming in Java, after a few years of doing something else. The language is fairly comfortable, though I do miss the lack of generics (1.5 is utopia for this project...).. However, the extra-lingual circumstances suck.

The shaky state of free implementations annoys me. I tend to use SableVM and Jikes as a base of operations, and they work fairly well as long as one doesn't get too adventurous. Ant seems to be a fine tool, even pleasant - or so I thought until I tried to generate API documentation with GJDoc; it took me half a day to get Ant and GJDoc to cooperate, only to find that GJDoc crashes on my input too.

What really annoys me is that all working stuff is non-free. I eventually cracked and got Javadoc working by succumbing to evil, that is to install a non-free Java 1.3 SDK. It works, except that my builds crash spectacularly. So I need to use free tools to build the software and non-free stuff to build the documentation.

Isn't that great.

2004-08-20T23:21+0300 - /en/programming

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Re: Announcing Ibid's Editor

What applications do you use that editor for?

- Josh, ti, 14 kesä 2005 19:06

Re: Announcing Ibid's Editor

Currently nothing, since it is not ready for production use. I have played with it mainly by reconstructing emails so that quotes become transclusions, but that's not a realistic application for production use. I hope it will be useful enough for writing all sorts of texts eventually. Texts that need the ability to quote from other texts will benefit, so scholarly writing is certainly one application.

- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, ke, 15 kesä 2005 10:47

I see.

Xanalogical text is an interesting idea. I would definately jump on the bandwagon to get it ported to win32 if I had any skills what-so-ever.

I suppose a Xanalogical IDE for your compiler isn't to far away.

- Josh, to, 16 kesä 2005 15:35

Re: Java sucks!

Even more reason to push Sun to open source Java in it's entirety!! Fill out the little form at http://www.sun.com/company/cgov/contact.cgi ;-)

- Ben Hill, la, 21 elo 2004 14:24

Re: Java sucks!

What is wrong with evil free binaries? Why is open source any better??? Maybe you should think 2x about how companies paid someone to sit there 9 to 5 weeding out bugs in compiler while volunteers dabble on it after they come home from work, shower, watch tv, some xxx time, then fired up the computer for 30 mins to work on it before going to bed.

- jiMMy, la, 11 syys 2004 09:54