Re: is there a risk to program in java since sun is bought by oracle

2014-04-10 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
abdelkader belahcene writes: > Sorry, may be my question is not clear, > > I mean : what will be happen if oracle decides to close the software ??? We will use OpenJDK. > same reason for what libreoffice ( instead of openoffice ) and Mariadb ( > instead of mysql) are created !!! > am

Re: is there a risk to program in java since sun is bought by oracle

2014-04-10 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Sorry, may be my question is not clear, I mean : what will be happen if oracle decides to close the software ??? same reason for what libreoffice ( instead of openoffice ) and Mariadb ( instead of mysql) are created !!! am I wrong?? is it not same pb? best regards On Thu, Apr 10, 2014

Re: is there a risk to program in java since sun is bought by oracle

2014-04-10 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
shawn wilson writes: > The problems with java come from allowing untrusted compiled code to > run natively on your machine (WebStart). I think that this problem arises with EVERY and EACH programming language. You trust Debian software packages because you trust Debian, not because of the pro

Re: is there a risk to program in java since sun is bought by oracle

2014-04-10 Thread shawn wilson
(Nice top post) On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > The only problem with Java is that it is a bit "old" for current > architectures. There are better languages that run on the JVM (Clojure and > Scala to name two). > The problems with java come from allowing untrusted

Re: is there a risk to program in java since sun is bought by oracle

2014-04-10 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
The only problem with Java is that it is a bit "old" for current architectures. There are better languages that run on the JVM (Clojure and Scala to name two). -- Gian Uberto Lauri Messaggio inviato da un tablet > On 09/apr/2014, at 22:31, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > > is there a risk to pro

Re: is there a risk to program in java since sun is bought by oracle

2014-04-09 Thread Kevin Price
No, there are several open implementations of the jdk, java is the recommended language for Android, and oracle has continued to support java well. Maybe someone knows something that I don't, but it seems like you should hack in the language you like best. On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 09:31:49PM +01