[ jEdit-users ] Re: jEdit / education / world domination (long)

[Kris K. <kr...@ma...>]

>The fault is shared. Java is a language (not true, actually, it's not the
>language's fault, it's the runtime's) where it's harder
>to write well performing applications, but it's definitely possible. I know
>this from experience. jEdit, however, doesn't make a decent effort.
>I tried looking at things I could improve but there were two main problems:
>1. There is no good open source or free profiler. I can't afford $200+ for
>a commercial profiler.
>2. Slava opposes changes. I once had to argue with him for two hours about
>*the need to investigate* a possible performance problem just because the
>fix involved removing one layer of indirection (writing a piece of code in
>Java instead of BeanShell). In the end it turned out to be a problem
>somewhere else, but my point stands.

Well there's nothing stopping you starting up a new project based on 
jEdit and showing us how it should be done.

I think people tend to forget open source developers typically write 
applications because they have a need for it, not to please the user 
base (who gets the software free I might add).

Kris