posted 22 years ago
I agree that if JAVA were not platform independant, It would still be my language of choice becuase I feel that C++ (which I coded in for over 10 years) is too open-ended: It just gives developers too many ways to trap themselves. My experience has been that if you have a decent application at some point someone's gonna say "Hey, what would it take to port this to a Mac?" So once you start adding native code to your Java application, when this occurs, now you're forced to write a native library for the MAC, Solaris, Linux, etc.
Anyway I do understand your point and respect your opinion, but as a developer I always resist the use of native code until I'm overruled.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. - Ernst F. Schumacher