Dan Armbrust wrote:
You live in an interesting world... meanwhile, I'm here in the real
world, using Eclipse - the best IDE I've ever used to develop java
applications. Oh, wait, Eclipse is written in Java? I didn't think it
was possible to write good apps in java? Certainly better than visual
studio (and yes, I have to use both - eclipse is a far better IDE in my
opinion). Oh, and I can run eclipse on my linux desktop as well as my
windows desktop? Thats just cool. Oh, and my next machine? Definitely
a Mac. And it woks there too - just like all of my SWT apps do.
I will admit, it is rather easy to write slow java swing applications
There are a lot of poor ones out there. Its a shame that Sun botched
swing so badly, and have never repaired it properly. Its not impossible
to write fast, responsive apps in swing, it just takes skilled
developers. And its a pain.
However, now with the emergence of SWT and modern JVM's - there is no
reason for your java GUI to be any slower than anything else. The only
excuse for a slow java app these days is the quality of the code that it
is built with. And you can write a bad, slow app in any language.
Cool. At least one that actually knows what he's talking about and have real life
experience. I'm also using Eclipse and a slew of other Java apps. No complaints whatsoever
on performance. Not too happy about all C/C++ apps that crash on illegal memory access though...
+1 (or 10) for Java on the desktop.
I will not spend time on a war that cannot be fought in this forum. Just wanted to air my
opinion this once :-)
Regards,
Thomas Hallgren
