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

[Daniel Pittman]

steve jenkin <sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au> writes:
> Bob Edwards wrote on 15/7/09 2:48 PM:
>
>> Apparently, Google Wave is written in Java, both client (desktop) and
>> server ends. Don't know if that is particularly relevant to this
>> discussion, though.

[...]

> Seems strange that it wasn't the Google standard, Python, on the server.

That would be "one of the three standard Google languages, Python, Java and or
C++, with a little JavaScript and C for flavour.

Regards,
        Daniel

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