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Originally Posted by wankawonk
the future of web servers is nodejs and python
I've used jetty (a java server library) before, its *ridiculously* complicated -- low-level -- compared to python/node. you're doing so much stuff from scratch that would already be implemented for you in node/python
I completely understand sticking with what you know (.net) but if you're looking to learn something new, I don't know why you'd choose java.
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RE Choosing Java: I'm just keeping an open mind.
I have been noticing nodesjs quite a bit.
Because I started as a firmware programmer in the seventies, I'm used to building my libraries from scratch. In the eighties I built a (now-Windows-style) GUI in C for my own vertical market software.
RE Jetty: I was wondering how Java maps to the server side.
I think I will focus for now on Java/whatever for the desktop software and app side.
I don't want to develop my own runtime libraries for Linux, Windows, Apple, so building on something like 3 "machines" (as in Java paradigm) appeals to me.
The applications I'm working on are totally flexible from a device rendering standpoint - the software looks/works fine on 360x720 to 1080p and up.
My biggest complaint about using Microsoft platform for deploying software is that generally a restart update (requiring reboot, to update registries and reload them) is not exactly seamless.
And, in the days when I was cranking out Microsoft compatible software, synching and including runtime libraries with the "software package" was a nightmare.
I've written interpreters that are stable and don't require frequent updating, and the functionality of my tools is written in my own pseudocode that can be updated live, without having to restart the app or operating system.
I could write my entire application in Perl or PHP, but that wastes the opportunity of offloading the CPU burden to the user's machine.
That's why my website applications, for now, are 100% Javascript with HTML stubs to load my libraries.
If I wanted to explore writing in Java, where and what would be the starting development platform I would load to my desktop? Is there a standard goto place/platform download?