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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 295 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (8 children)

This is absolutely ridiculous. It should be migrated to Java, so it can run everywhere.

[–] tristan@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 97 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)
[–] lauha@lemmy.world 36 points 4 days ago (2 children)

3 billion devices have been running java for past 20 years.

[–] GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone 23 points 4 days ago

Proof of stability!

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 days ago

Most of them have not loaded the kvm just yet, any minute now ...

[–] elvith@feddit.org 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Don't you think, that's enough already?

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago

At least one to many in my opinion.

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

And no more than that. There's a queue now...

[–] MrKoyun@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Scratch should be the choice, obviously. It will be so much easier to maintain! Think of all of the new contributors!

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 47 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Except next to pools, no one should run there

[–] Klear@quokk.au 13 points 4 days ago

Unless you have scissors. That cancels it out.

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago

J2EE ffmpeg for flip phones

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You mean JavaScript so that it does the same thing each time

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 days ago
[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

Better yet: bash. If you can read the code, then someone didn't do their job properly!

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The entire system is going to be regex.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

That's the genius of it

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 4 days ago

Surely at least one other person knows about qemu-user

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago

Lies, damn lies, and write once run anywhere™️.