I wouldn't have considered Java a few years ago because of its slowness. But with ARM machines having the ability to natively run Java bytecode I have to rethink that. I still have more Raspberry Pis than Androids though.
I wrote Java for a year or so about 10 years ago doing some command line stuff talking to an Oracle database. The size and complexity made me think of Ada. There is an SDR program written with Java Swing: sdrtrunk at https://github.com/DSheirer/sdrtrunk/releases which isn't bad except it only does trunking, no conventional radio. I'm inclined to look into QT next though. On 10/24/17, Keith Packard <kei...@keithp.com> wrote: > Alan Corey <alan01...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Maybe Java Swing then it's portable. I was enjoying the retro aspect >> though. > > I've been using Swing for a couple of years now for GUI application > development. It definitely feels 'retro' in a lot of ways -- Java is > well on its way to being the successor to Cobol and Swing reminds me way > more of Motif/Xt than Gtk+ or Qt as it's all about constructing dialog > boxes out of (frankly terrible) geometry management abstractions. > > Unlike Motif/Xt, Gtk+ or Qt, the API along with the whole toolkit > implementation is expressed using the programming language itself, so I > don't feel like I'm using several languages at the same time. > > An unexpected bonus feature about using Java is that the core > application logic runs on Android as well. > > -- > -keith > -- ------------- No, I won't call it "climate change", do you have a "reality problem"? - AB1JX Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
