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Alioth moving toward pagure

Posted Jun 15, 2017 9:29 UTC (Thu) by jond (subscriber, #37669)
Parent article: Alioth moving toward pagure

Re "Gitblit is Java"; I can't remember (but I hope) the actual discussion (and dismissal) was a bit more nuanced. I think Java is more maligned than necessary some of the time, and there's a *lot* of F/OSS Java code out there. It's perhaps more maligned in Debian than other Linux sub-cultures, certainly I'm seeing much more of it at Red Hat than I was used to in the Debian community.

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Posted Jun 16, 2017 10:53 UTC (Fri) by meyert (subscriber, #32097) [Link] (1 responses)

Yeah, "is Java" is not a technical reason to not use the software but an opinion. The JVM is very powerful and much more advanced than the Python world. Much more battle tested in heavy load enterprise world. But in some circles a Java bashing became trendy, but as often those people have little knowledge about the topic.

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Posted Nov 3, 2017 22:03 UTC (Fri) by JanC_ (subscriber, #34940) [Link]

Their experience with "enterprise" Java software is exactly why most sysadmins hate Java.

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Posted Jun 17, 2017 15:01 UTC (Sat) by anarcat (subscriber, #66354) [Link]

I'd be glad to read up more on the arguments against Gitblit. What I have seen in my review of the numerous mailing list posts is merely the mention of Gitblit as an alternative, and no explicit rebuttal. The quote here is from an IRC discussion where I explicitly asked Wirt why Gitblit was rejected, and this was literally his response. Notice how, in the article, I do not take a stance regarding the validity of that statement.

With the new Stretch release out the door, it is, however, interesting to note the various programming language stats: Java is the fourth most popular language after C, C++ and... XML! (Next up are Python, SH and Perl.) I myself, do not dislike Java as a language so much, but I have found it difficult to manage Java applications quite often as a sysadmin, as the frameworks can be quite heavy on resources, so I believe I understand where Wirt is coming from.

Everything, of course, should be written in my $current_language_of_choice. ;)