Java sucks.

Originally posted by: XZeroII
I was comparing it to Visual Studio. Compared to VS, Eclipse is nothing. VS is so much easier and faster IMO.

Try IntelliJ IDEA. It's the best IDE out of any language. It has features that blow VS.NET away.

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Originally posted by: XZeroII
I was comparing it to Visual Studio. Compared to VS, Eclipse is nothing. VS is so much easier and faster IMO.

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree

True. Everyone is different. I guess that's why there is more than one language out there

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: tkdkid

Originally posted by: NuclearNed

I like Java because it is based on C, the holy mother of all languages.







But keep in mind that MS has largely discontinued all Java support. So I would expect its use to diminish rapidly over time.

Lack of Microsoft support will only make java more popular.

Popular with who? Even though lots of "elitists" hate MS, they are still the force that drives current trends. I stick to my original statement.

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: dwell

Originally posted by: XZeroII
I was comparing it to Visual Studio. Compared to VS, Eclipse is nothing. VS is so much easier and faster IMO.

Try IntelliJ IDEA. It's the best IDE out of any language. It has features that blow VS.NET away.

Interesting. What features?

 

[torpid]

It wouldn't take much to blow VS.net away. The version for .net 2.0 should be a lot better.

As far as VB not being object oriented... you must be referring to VB 6 and below, and not vb.net. VB.net is object oriented. Inheritence, polymorphism, etc. The only thing it doesn't have that c# does is multiple inheritance. Java and vb.net are very similar in features. Reflection, proxies, interfaces, strongly typed, inheritance, abstract types, etc.

The main difference is that the .net framework offers a lot more APIs than the default java ones, though j2ee has many things that .net doesn't too.

 

Originally posted by: XZeroII
Interesting. What features?

Some of the cool features are:

- Auto import; You type a class name like "List" and it will ask "java.util.List?" and do the import for you.
- Creates try/catch blocks with the proper Exception class for you.
- Refactoring; rename variables, methods, classes and it will update all code in all files to reflect this
- Local history (sort of a on-the-fly version control) you can rollback history of your work, etc
- Parses Java syntax on the fly (VS.NET) does this
- Parses XML syntax on the fly
- Generates getters/setters, constructors, equals() and hashcode()
- Code style
- CVS integration
- Code inspector; Sort of a built-in Java lint tool