java

Let me just say that developing cross-platform software is one of the more royal pains out there. Java, built from the ground up with cross-platform in mind does a better job than most to maintain a level of abstraction for the developer. However, a universal sticking point is what character the directory separator is. Unix, the Web, and the rest of the sane world use ‘/’ to separate directories. This makes sense, since in most modern (hell, nearly all) programming languages, the ‘' is used as a prefix to an escape character....

Anyone who isn’t a full fledged computer nut (or someone who does this for a living… I at least fit both categories) can move on to some of my other posts below (World Cup Part 3 for example). However, if you aren’t phased, please continue. Why has no one done a one to one port of the extensive Java libraries to C++? I know there is Boost which is basically an advanced extension to the C++ standard library, but wouldn’t you think it would be worth while to have a 1 to 1 port where you didn’t need to think about different syntax, the function and behavior was the same (or as close as you can get in C++ while still concerning yourself with memory management)....

To start, I really like Java as a programming language. Because of its “library,” it is very is to be productive quickly, without having to reinvent the wheel each time. When you combine that with an IDE like Eclipse and a graphics library like SWT, Java is amazingly powerful. Now that I’ve got that out of the way, let me bitch for a bit. If anything I say is wrong, please let me know as it will relieve much toil....

If you write code, and you haven’t tried Eclipse, you haven’t experienced a truly great IDE. I’m currently trying to set it up to do my Web development, Java Development, and if I can figure out how to get a compiler to work, C++ development (that will be last, since I don’t have any @home C++ work to be doing… I get enough of that at work). (I’m going to update this post as the IDE setup continues....