[clug] Why isn't Java popular on the Linux Desktop?

[jm]

My thought, besides disliking java, is that it's viewed as an enterprise 
language. Then again why isn't there lots of desktop applications 
written in Ada?

Jeff.

Nathan O'Sullivan wrote:
> Mono has been in the news a bit recently, and I don't want to rehash 
> that topic.
>
> I'm not involved in the Java world, but perhaps someone here is. Why 
> do you think Java has not taken off for Linux Desktop apps? What needs 
> to happen for it to do so?