Re: DIa Port to Java

["Aaron Trevena" <aaron trevena gmail com>]

On 16/02/2008, Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 08:30 -0600, Mark and Lisa Collins wrote:
> > I am trying to find a developer, for hire, that would be interesting
> > in building Dia in Java with some modifications.  Can you point me to
> > someone who might eb interested?
>
> I have been thinking that that would be the way to go; IDEs for Java are
> a lot better than for C.  I just so happen to have a company that does
> programming contracting, so please let me know what you're thinking of,
> and I'll see what we can figure out.

No - that isn't the way to go.

Java doesn't work with any of the native *nix toolkits or desktops,
doesn't integrate with other languages, and can be a real pig to
install and run.

All the huge amount of grief involved in java isn't worth being able
to use a couple of Eclipse functions.

A.

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