Is Gnome becoming a Microsoft project?

[Fernando Cassia]

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz
<mmarzantowicz at osdf.com.pl> wrote:
> Java? This fat and ugly pig? Must be a joke. Gnome should focus on C/C++
> with Vala and Python as supporting languages.

Yeah, such a fat and ugly pig that great software like VOIP app Jitsi
(www.jitsi.org) uses it, Vuze P2P uses it, Jdownloader uses it, like
Art of Illusion 3D renderer and Sweet Home 3D uses it
http://www.sweethome3d.com/index.jsp

With OpenJDK7 being GPL and ubiquitous on Linux distros, it's hard to
make a case for NOT using it, specially when non-Java languages can
use it (Jython, JRuby, xRuby, NetRexx, Jabaco...).

If you speak out of ignorance and prejudice, it can also be said that
C/C++ brought us pigs like KDE 4.x which can use up to 500 MB of ram.

Some examples of great Java based cross platform apps:

Jitsi VOIP - messaging - videoconference
http://www.jitsi.org
Art of Illusion 3D renderer
http://aoi.sourceforge.net/
Bloom (pic uploader to Farcebook)
http://antaki.ca/bloom/
Vuze BitTorrent P2P
http://www.vuze.com
JDownloader
http://www.jdownloader.org/
JDiskReport
http://ho.io/jdiskreport
muCommander file manager / SSH file copy
http://ho.io/mu-commander
JEdit programmers' editor
http://www.jedit.org/
NetBeans IDE
http://www.netbeans.org
OmegaT, translation tool
http://www.omegat.org/en/download_selector/lin_nojre.php
Earth3D
http://venus.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~gunia/webstart/earth3d_dev.jnlp
(earth3d.org)
Freemind Mind Mapping software
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Frinika - GPL music sequencer
http://frinika.appspot.com/
JShot screenshot tool - uploading
http://jshot.info/jshot/webstart/jshot.jnlp
PowerFolder (cloud storage)
http://download.powerfolder.com/pro/webstart/PowerFolder.jnlp
PetrusBlogger (multi-blog client)
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/News-Newsgroups-Blog-Tools/Petrus-Blogger.shtml
DVB demux tool
http://sourceforge.net/projects/project-x/
UpTheSync - cloud file syncing
http://upthesync.sourceforge.net/
Burp - Web security testing
http://portswigger.net/burp/
jHome - Home Automation
http://www.eletronlivre.com.br/jhome/

...And these are the ones just off the top off my head

Lots of " stupid " programmers writing cross-platform big fat ugly
Java code, it seems!. ;-P

FC