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Apache's role in all of thisApache's role in all of thisPosted Aug 22, 2012 15:38 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: Apache's role in all of this by man_ls Parent article: Kamp: A Generation Lost in the Bazaar
>So, both WebStart and Python require the user to download it before using it. Unsurprisingly. From there Python is more geared to professional users, for which I am grateful (since amateurs are not going to use WebStart or pip anyway).
Actually, it is possible to install Java using browsers' automatic plugin detection.
>To provide for Java deficiencies, which means the 50MB+ JRE monstrosity is not even enough to have a decent set of collections.
Please, stop repeating nonsense. Commons-collections is a dead project, it hadn't been necessary for a loooooooong time. Sun JVM in fact has one of the best collection libraries, including parallel and non-blocking collections which you'd be hard-pressed to find in other languages.
You also might actually browse the list of apache-commons libraries. About a half of them are either thin wrappers over several other libraries and/or long-dead projects.
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Apache's role in all of this Posted Aug 22, 2012 16:12 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] I was not repeating anything, it is just my own recollection. If the situation has improved nowadays, good for them!
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