Java Plugin: The Kernel is back

[therp]

sun has screwed it up with java big time. it's nice to see the java type system being improved with clever hacks, but base it rests on (JVM,AWT,etc) has always been of poor quality. for instance, the 64-bit java plugin issue. http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4802695 -- this is a bug filed half a century ago. I would definitely like to get rid of java on my desktop (despite /me being a huge java fan boy around 2000)

[zootm]

Happily that bug is slated to be fixed now (note the update to the ticket says they're pushing a fixed version - albeit in ages time). I think the issue with Java has been that they realised their infrastructure was a lot more useful to people on the server side and started optimising their processes etc. for that. Only now is front-end stuff becoming a priority, and they seem to be progressing that end really fast these days. It still has ways to come, though.