A little general history
In the past, I have (sort of) ferociously attacked Java for being a horribly slow, memory-hogging platform. These attacks were not based on nothing; I can assure you I have done my share of Java programming both as an undergraduate CS major and a graduate SE major, and also in general on […]

I posed this rhetorical question in my last post, “How am I to love [Android] and hate Java at the same time?”
It turns out, it actually has an answer! I don’t have to. Enter Dalvik.
Dalvik is why Google falls into Mark Pilgrim’s “way fucking smarter than you are” bunch. Dalvik is a Java VM written […]

Last November, Sun announced the creation of the OpenJDK project and community, which stemmed from it’s initial claim in May 2006 that it would GPL Java.
From what it looks like, Sun is basically making due on it’s promise. Richard Stallman claims that this is one of the biggest contributions to the Free Software Foundation, ever.
In […]