Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 14:40:03 +0300 From: Ghirai <ghirai@ghirai.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java on the BSD Desktop? Message-ID: <1932362406.20070529144003@ghirai.com> In-Reply-To: <92bcbda50705290356g70381411m185d9067fa1c3c60@mail.gmail.com> References: <465B86F9.3000001@voidmain.net> <465BFD6F.5090507@netfence.it> <92bcbda50705290356g70381411m185d9067fa1c3c60@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello n, Tuesday, May 29, 2007, 1:56:39 PM, you wrote: >> I am wanting to write a gui frontend to pkg_cutleaves. I see that it is >> just a simple perl script so, it would be quite simple to just put a gtk >> frontend on it and call it a day. However, I am starting to write a >> good amount of code in java and was wondering what others think about >> java as the de-facto gui standard on the BSD desktop. > For what it's worth, I think Java should be far more present in the > FreeBSD at least as far as desktop is concerned and it's a good > alternative to Qt/Tk/Gtk for GUI applications. Java is a fine serious > programming language whose strongest selling point a long time ago > ceased to be "write once, run anywhere". > Just my .02, I would say Python would be more suitable (smaller, faster), plus it's installed by default on quite a few *nix OS. -- Best regards, Ghirai.
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