Re: [ jEdit-users ] Re: [ JDiff-users ] status update

[Matthew P. <mr...@sa...>]

mike dillon wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Slava Pestov wrote:
> > Just because there is no free version of Swing doesn't mean that one
> > shouldn't develop for it! Look at Windows; it ain't free, but there
> > is a lot of software for it. Politics and code should be kept separate.
>
> i'm sorry, but it's difficult. whenever i find myself working on Swing code, i
> inevitably think of how i'd rather just fix the bug in Swing, or work on
> reimplementing Swing itself. i don't like that i can't do so except to the sole
> benefit of Sun's "stewardship".

<rant>
I find Java a very productive language to program in, and I end up with programs
that are very robust compared to c++/perl, but I do wish that I could fix obvious
bugs in the standard libraries without selling my soul, or waiting for 6+ months
for Sun to get arround to it. I understand their wish to control the APIs for the
core, but do they realy not trust anybody else to implement/fix them?
</rant>

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