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20090702 Thursday July 02, 2009

Slag: vitreous residue left after smelting metallic ore

So, there I was reading a random blog post about Android and the JavaWorld author says something about some awesome, brilliant, insightful Sun Java ME blogger who tends to "slag" on Android. Slag? What's slag? I had to look that up. And, oh, he was a referring to me and had a link to one of my blog posts last year about Android. (Yeah, stop snickering out there) But, of course! :-)

See:

Java ME Blogger Slags on Android

Here's a quote: 

 In addition, because Harmony is a 
 tweaked Java SE implementation, 
 code written for Android doesn't 
 match up with the Java ME standard 
 that Sun would like to see be the 
 default for mobile device 
 development. It's no wonder Sun's 
 official Java ME bloggers tend to 
 slag on it.
It took me some time to find this photo of a heart-shaped slag. It's a good metaphor: slag but behind it there is <3 for Java. :-)

[Java ME and J2ME] ( July 02, 2009 05:04 PM ) Permalink Comments [1]

Comments:

Reading the article I'm thinking: So the evidence of this 'umooring'(I don't know what that means) is that android is beginning to support languages the JVM already supports??

While his argument is incredibly faulty, I agree with his intention. Google is 'forking' java because JME(and Java as a whole) is definitely slacking off and suffering from Sun over-attachment.

Posted by Mustang on July 08, 2009 at 05:18 AM PDT #

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