On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 18:59 +0000, james@email-addr-hidden-art.net wrote:
> I'm no gamer but even I know games can be have been written in java. Minecraft springs to mind. A very interesting 3d block game.
The one famous for having almost artistically primitive graphics?
Funny, that :)
Don't get me wrong, I would *love* for there to be a safe[1], portable,
well-designed, widely-deployed language which were suitable for such
things, but unfortunately we're not there yet.
or: nobody ever got fired for going with C on Unix :)
or: I don't need a virtual machine, I have a real one, thanks
-dr
[1] Note Java is *not* a safe language. In a safe language it is e.g.
*impossible* to crash because of a null pointer dereference.
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