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On Thursday, 18 September 2014 at 15:48:46 UTC, Bruno Medeiros
wrote:
> On 05/09/2014 14:42, Chris wrote:
>> A jar can only be used by another Java program. Making a Java 
>> program
>> accessible to 3rd party software via a DLL is not so simple, 
>> and the JVM
>> has to be up and running all the time. Java is cross-platform 
>> as long as
>> you stay within the safe and cosy Java bubble that floats on 
>> top of the
>> JVM. But once you step outside of the JVM, gravity kicks in.
>
> Exactly. But the promise of "Write once run everywhere" had 
> always been if you stayed within the confines of Java/JVM. 
> There was never a promise, or implication, that it would 
> cross-platform once you started mixing in with foreign code.

Write once, debug everywhere is more accurate.

Still prefers coding in java rather than C++ .