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

Sam Couter sam at couter.id.au
Wed Jul 15 03:02:24 MDT 2009


Francis James Whittle <fudje at grapevine.net.au> wrote:
> I guess it's just my personal whinging there really.  I don't like
> having to write exactly the same extra code for every project because
> the language won't "just do" file I/O.  To my mind it's a step backwards
> to not just be able to treat an opened file object as a stream.

final InputStream in = new FileInputStream(new File("/whatever"));

It's not as concise as Python, but it's not that bad. The steps that come
afterwards are pretty bad, but that goes for any stream in Java. Files
aren't especially hard.
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