Why didn't Jikes take off? [LWN.net]

Why didn't Jikes take off?

Posted Mar 5, 2005 7:21 UTC (Sat) by LinuxLobbyist (guest, #6541)
In reply to: Why didn't Jikes take off? by landley
Parent article: IBM's latest gift to the community

Even the open source reimplementations of Java (kaffe, Japhar, gcj with gnu classpath) have mostly stagnated for lack of interest.

Just one comment. There is no sign whatsoever of stagnation of gcj work. Just check the Fedora Core mailing lists. There's even one list dedicated to java specific discussions (though I don't know what it's called off hand).

Because of that, I will be advocating for Java as the write-once-run-anywhere dominant platform if some developers really feel a need for that capability -- however suspect the write-once-run-anywhere claim may be. Why? Because cozying up to something Microsoft controls, sometimes via patents, has historically been fatal or near fatal. ;-) And I'd say .NET (and hence, possible future problems with Mono) falls into that category.

-Paul Iadonisi
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