Question for GCC programmers

[Matthew Hannigan]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 06:29:47AM +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
> On 09/10/10 14:21, David Fawcett wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 9 October 2010 15:13, Lisa Milne <lisa at ltmnet.com
> > <mailto:lisa at ltmnet.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     Please don't recommend mono, it's just a Bad Idea:
> >     http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono
> >
> >
> > So whats the solution?
> 
> Java works for me.  It has interfaces to all of the appropriate
> low-level libraries on both Linux & Windows, and it's not patent
> encumbered like Mono.  It also has an outstanding ecosystem of software
> which has grown up around it, particularly the various Java components
> of the Apache project.

Raw mode has been a problem in Java for about forever (1996)
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4008589
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4008589
http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6351276

I think Python is the (better) answer.

But this feature IS hard to do cross-platform, because the underlying
model differs so much.


Matt