nrg_alpha Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 Ok, so over at sitepoint, I cam acorss this article, which basically talks about JPC, a x86 emulator written in Java. So it goes on to explain virtualization and whatnot, and then come across a quote: Steve Jobs has stated "Java's not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It's this big heavyweight ball and chain." I'm no Java developer, but is that statement correct? My understanding was that over the years, Java has been increasing in popularity. :-\ In either case, would be nice to be able to play older pc games on a mobile device. Screw porting the game over (assuming some developer in question even does it). Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/166509-run-pc-applications-from-your-mobile-with-jpc/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 I think Mr. Jobs is just talking out of his ass here. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/166509-run-pc-applications-from-your-mobile-with-jpc/#findComment-878055 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zq29 Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 As much as I don't think that is the case, I'm not a fan of Java either. Platform independent code is great, but at the cost of performance, I'd rather find an alternative. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/166509-run-pc-applications-from-your-mobile-with-jpc/#findComment-878533 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 As a person that works for a company that uses Java as our core technology, I can definitely say that Java is no "ball and chain that no one uses anymore". I was actually under the impression that Java was picking up in popularity as well. There is a lot of movement in the Java community. There is even a framework called Grails (similar to Ruby on Rails). Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/166509-run-pc-applications-from-your-mobile-with-jpc/#findComment-878567 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 As much as I don't think that is the case, I'm not a fan of Java either. Platform independent code is great, but at the cost of performance, I'd rather find an alternative. I disagree. Hardware is cheaper than developers, so if you can reduce development time at a slight cost of performance that would often be a good idea. Otherwise, why don't we write all programs in machine code? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/166509-run-pc-applications-from-your-mobile-with-jpc/#findComment-878570 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerRobot Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 Otherwise, why don't we write all programs in machine code? What, you mean you don't write all your programs in machine code?! Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/166509-run-pc-applications-from-your-mobile-with-jpc/#findComment-878576 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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