Re: Stallman lamenting that GCJ and ClassPath are still (read: eternally)catching up ...

[Bart Locanthi <bart at sabl dot com>]

i think gcj can be a big player in the embedded systems world.

btw anything that makes it easier to create statically linked binaries 
that don't include the kitchen sink will help in that area.

Erik Poupaert wrote:

> The "Java Trap" is otherwise an interesting read:
>
> http://programming.newsforge.com/programming/04/04/07/2021242.shtml?tid=105&tid=54
>
> He's lamenting about "GCJ and ClassPath still catching up".
>
> GCJ eternally catching up is otherwise a self-inflicted condition. I mean, we all
> know very well that it never pays to play copycat. There's no way to be *and*
> compatible with Sun *and* to let things drift there where the users want to take them
> -- and that's eventually the only strategy that guarantees success.
>
> Let's recap the GCJ successes from 1998 till this very day? None. What will be the
> GCJ successes in 2007? None again. It doesn't take a degree in advanced econometrics
> to see this coming.
>
> It all just sounds as if there were no niches -- at all -- in which GCJ could be
> successful and start building strength. Of course there are.
>