Posted by Chrostopher B. Matthews 209.167.40.2 using Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT) on February 24, 2000 at 05:11:58:
In Reply to: About Immerse posted by Michael J. Hill on February 23, 19100 at 16:42:14:
The trouble with c++ is that it has no standardized GUI interface classes. Porting would still be a big job if it were written in c++.
And I program c++ at my job all day. I think java will be a nice little break :)
Another thing is that java is so easy to reverse compile, that it will almost force me to keep it open source.
I'm not going to use any fancy new java stuff like swing. For windows users, I want ppl to be able to use the program jview that ships with windows. That way windows users won't have to download the jre just to run the program.
Linux users are a different story, it's true. But you would only have to download the jre once and then you'd be set. At the rate things are going, I think that java may become a necessity on many os's in the future as we become less and less dependant upon windows.