Re: RText as a viable alternative to jEdit

sigzero <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.editors.jedit.user
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On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 1:28 PM Dimitri Maziuk <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 2017-12-22 22:31, Stefan Reich wrote:
> > I don't quite get that comment. Is the point that Java turned bad since
> > Oracle is on it?
>
> Also turned portable between debian and ubuntu. It was supposed to be as
> absurd as "aging jedit, consider switching to my pet java project".
>
> On a more serious note Oracle has a bit of reputation and their google
> lawsuit did nothing to improve it. So yeah, it turned... much less
> attractive. Do you know how many browsers still support java applets



>
> Dima


Applets were on their way out before Oracle came into the picture. If
anything, Java has been getting slowly and steadily better. It’s a solid
language.

If there’s something about jEdit that could be better, let’s make it better.

—
Bob

>

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