What is java for mac os x mod#

What reaaly bothers me about Apple is that their support for anything that doesn't come out of Cupertino seems to be either designed to bait end users into moving to Macs than anything else. As someone who supports and uses Java, I'm getting sick and tired of standing by while Slashdot scheisters such as Mr Coward here hi-five each other every day for upping the Java-deprecation ante. There is a wide diversity of tools and technologies out there, all with unique advantages. Yet unfortunately, all you are doing by making these sorts of jokes is needlessly acting to divide a healthy open-source community and reduce enthusiasm for Java. NET missionaries) who would seriously want to see the downfall of Java anytime soon. But somehow I doubt there are many people (aside from a few hard-core. I know it's not trendy to bust into your acerbic sarcasm-filled world with my serious comment here.

What is java for mac os x mod#

The fact that Slashdot has now become a playground for groundlessly insulting 'Java' in the hopes of scoring a few mod points from the (as usual) hopelessly juvenile Slashdot moderators, makes me sad. It does offer a lot to users of all platforms, and has been doing so for quite some time now. In fact, it doesn't just suggest this to me. This suggests to me that it offers a lot to users of all platforms, especially open-source ones.

Java is a powerful, performant (by far moreso than the current batch of oh-so-trendy interpreted languages), cross-platform, *open-source* set of technologies. At first it was stupidly amusing, now it's just stupid. And not anything specific about it, not even the stupid parroting that it's 'slow', just things like 'it's an abomination' etc. Not any specific aspect or technology of Java, just 'Java'. Over the last few weeks it has somehow become trendy on Slashdot to make ridiculous jabs at 'Java'.