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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Well, I like the installer for starters : that part is very well crafted. Haven't used it enough to express more yet. @reisio >> Seemed pretty good to me (y'know, aside from being a Java app) Well, I do not get it honestly : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eclipse IS a Java app. And it's one of the very best pieces of software out there (for free). Azureus/Vuze IS a Java app. And it's one of the best bittorrent clients out there. Actually, some of the best softwares I have ever seen are Java apps. :confused: There is this "trend" to saying that "Java apps are unstable" : they are not. This is like saying that "websites are poorly designed on average". It's a generalisation. And the cause is : too many poor Java developers out there do not understand what they do. Java is merely a tool - one can develop what they want with the tool, provided they know how to use it - it is so extensible that it is easy to graft dll's and so's into it in order to extend capabilities to (sky is the limit). The only "drawback" I see to Java apps is the VM "warming up" time. A VM, in an attempt to be nice to users, starts a program WHILE STILL optimizing it's execution (it's called a Hotspot VM for a reason, it finds hot spots and turns the temperature up gently at startup). That's the "lag at applets startup", period. Past this startup phase, I have been doing and testing things with Java that outperform what I could do with any other programming language, because of the added portability. My 2 cents. Loading...
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