is Java the be all end all best programming language to use if you want to develop desktop applications/automation scripts that can work on both windows and linux?
Is Java the be all end all best programming language to use if you want to develop desktop applications/automation...
Sebastian Gomez
Logan Miller
okay then vishnu
Sebastian Campbell
>automation scripts
>Java
hmmmm
Owen Sanders
>what is javascript
Cooper Cruz
that was a legitimate question, not a statement
Jose Parker
Java isnt used for scripting, because it isnt a scripting language. Yes its the be all end all portable application software, currently
Adrian Stewart
Rust.
Isaac Flores
kek
Aaron Morgan
Java startup time and general memory heaviness means it probably shouldn't be your first choice for either of those objectives. It works best as a server that is up for long periods of time, and thus the memory overheard and startup time is negligible.
Python has interpreters for all major OS, Go can be a good cross platform option if you compile for each one although it doesn't have good GUI libraries. The truth is your "automation scripts" will be fairly different between windows and gnu+Iinux, so you may want to separate unix-based and not into the languages most appropriate for each platform.
Ayden Thompson
>server
>memory overhead
You don't need instruction set portability if you're on a server. What else are you running on, PowerPC?
Asher Wood
Rust is the future. Accept your fate.
Bentley Ward
It's allocated/reserved heap memory for a spike in load, that typically is unnecessary on desktop, you can tune it out, but it's just the intended environment of java, desktop applications have moved on, java was only a thing for this in the mid 00s at times and earlier.
Just don't do it.
Owen Watson
Rust! Rust! RUST!
Austin Diaz
everyone have to take a shit, everyone needs to take a java. So yeah, it is.
Bentley Flores
If you need it in production at a major company: Java
If not: .NET Core
Andrew Robinson
Is it true that if I learn the basics/intermediates of C# I've also learnt equal knowledge of Java?
Cameron Reyes
Desktop Qt, scripting anything you want
Anthony Russell
You haven’t heard of GraalVM or Quarkus then have you?
Noah Scott
yes
Caleb Clark
no, e.g async/await, properties, Expression, closures, value tuples, generators, events, and inheritance either differ from or don't exists first-class in Java.
but they do share common syntax for declaring interfaces, classes, methods and variables.
Wyatt James
Pretty much
Parker Mitchell
an entirely separate, different language?