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WebGL is doing the heavy lifting.

I know this will immediately mark me as a heretic, but I am a long time and current Emacs user, so this comes from a place of love, really :o) -- I believe the best thing for Emacs…

Well, I'm very impressed with the asm.js numbers - its lead over the JVM is really unexpected (to me, at least). I've not been a JS fan, but if asm.js can pull out this kind of per…

As a New Zealander, quite frankly I have to say that Americans sound like a bunch of racists to me whenever they discuss Samsung vs Apple.

Like the "Blub" paradox? You mean it's an arrogant elitist snobbish response to people who prefer a simpler approach?

As a long time Java programmer who's other favourite languages are Lisp (and C!) I'm really excited about this. I understand Java programmers who say that this will not change anyt…

The sooner Oracle dies and hands Java over to someone less evil, the better.

For some reason, the only people who think RAII is an incredible deal is C++ programmers. You don't see it as a feature that anyone else cares about.

Yeah, this is really sad.

I don't get this. I install Java updates regularly and I've never had this toolbar installed. (I do agree that Oracle are jerks, however)

Java makes a very good bytecode for the web. Applets today are much faster and better integrated than they were when all the hype was about. Java's difficulties are all political. …

I hope the state of the art is much better than that.

Of course it will. Only zealots who have a weird grudge against Java would think otherwise.

So how is last century working out for you?

That was the part I found particularly funny. As a New Zealander, I'm horrified by what the US Patent Office has done to the world of Software Engineering. This whole Imaginary Pro…

Fantastic post. I think you succinctly sum up what is worst about HN. Lots of people here like FP. Great! Use it, but spare us the interminable circle jerks.

Obligatory response: history is littered with people who have said that things are impossible which have since been done. I don't believe that the realm of the possible has just st…

You've never heard of C++?

I find this HN concept of the Java programmer as a 'blub' programmer really offensive. I've coded C,C++ for years. I really like Lisp, Clojure, Python. I've dabbled with Haskell an…

The Java ecosystem has a range of solutions to this problem that actually work. I know it's not trendy or anything, but it works. Depends on what's more important to you, I guess.

I completely agree. I read that first sentence and thought: what about people that don't care either way? Apparently, I don't exit.

Not true at all: logical fallacies apply to all arguments. In fact, most of them never apply in the context of purely logical arguments - .e.g: argument from authority, ad hominem …

Did you not notice that removing the branch also sped up the Java code considerably? Also, there's potentially more speed in the Java code than reported given that warm-up time for…

I can't believe that you point out the Bananabread demo as proof that JS is doing WebGL in a performant fashion. Issues: * I have a PC that is set up for playing bleeding edge AAA …

This is just a request for an argument from authority which is a form of logical fallacy: whether the opinion expressed is correct is not reliant on the skills of the person expres…