Casimiro de Almeida Barreto wrote:
But at what cost????
It is a high cost at times, granted :>
Java is more suited for small applications
I am sorry, but could you please explain this?
and I guess that Oracle people got it right when they started to migrate from old tools to Java in order to have better UI development.
What UI development do you mean?
But when you have to handle large amounts of data and extremely dynamic objects and things like that Java performance drops to the point that it is better to use C++ or even C...
This sounds interesting - could you please elaborate a bit further?
Interesting enough, there are lots of re-engineering initiatives for the Java VM. Up to the moment nobody was able to create a VM that lessens the troubles with the garbage collection system and other performance related topics.
Well, one performance related topic is halfway gone: graphics.