On 2010-10-28 17:34, Michael Watterson wrote:
> On 28/10/2010 14:42, Bento, Joseph (Electronic Communications Tech)
> wrote:
>>
>> MPLAB X is Java-based, and cross platform compatible.  It will
>> therefore run natively on Windows, OSX, Linux, etc.
>>
>> See http://devupdates.microchip.com/mplab/
>>
>> Joe
>>
> But hopefully not as painfully slowly as other Java based IDEs I have
> abandoned using,
>
> The whole point though of Java is that's it's not Native. It sounded
> like a nice idea once. I'm not convinced that java is a good idea
> anymore.
>

After Oracle bought SUN, and the lack of clear information about the
roadmap for Java (from Oracle), there is a lot of "talk" around Java
in the IT industry right now. Time will tell, as usualy...

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