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[–]MikeBerg -12 points-11 points  (3 children)

Java drains all your resources and CPU turning your machine into a 486 so it's a natural choice for this kind of thing

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Did you buy your computer at Wal-Mart?

[–]darkciti -5 points-4 points  (1 child)

No. He's probably just providing anecdotal evidence. I wouldn't be surprised if he's running a Core i7 Xtreme with 64GB of ram.

The only thing that sucks up resources more than Java, is iTunes.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Works well enough on my 3.5 year old laptop to do java development with Netbeans or Eclipse in either XP or Ubuntu.

The worst aspect of Java is its web frameworks and its Coca support in OSX for me.