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   Hello Maurice!   
      
   31 Jan 20 22:55, Maurice Kinal wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:   
      
    GK>> I have a smarthome solution that is running on java (on an RPI)   
    GK>> just fine.   
      
    MK> Which OS and what java compiler or do you cross-compile for it?     
      
   The stuff is OSS, but I don't compile it myself, I just let the vendor or the   
   community do the legwork. But I can ssh into the RPI and see that there is   
   Linux installed and pretty much everything else running under java (openjdk8).   
   The community-driven version is called Raspberrymatic:   
   https://raspberrymatic.de/   
      
   IMHO, many people do not recognise that embedded platforms and such were the   
   original target market for java when it was invented by Sun's engineers.   
      
    MK> Either way I am guessing openjdk which is Oracle's vertsion of the    
    MK> java they 'inherited' from Sun Microsystems when they bought them    
    MK> out.   
      
   Sure, OpenJDK is the quasi-standard these days. GNU people quit on gcj long   
   ago, but there is quite a bunch of different projects based on OpenJDK   
   meanwhile:   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK#OpenJDK_builds   
      
    MK> java might have won me over but I was already used to doing    
    MK> everything in C or C-like (eg shell scripting) so there was never an    
    MK> appeal to java since my home pc was also C based ... albiet running a    
    MK> DOS ... not MS btw.  ;-)   
      
   Selecting a language heavily depends on the intended use and context. If it is   
   just for yourself, there is far less to consider than in other circumstances.   
      
    MK> If Linux hadn't come along I would probably be running FreeBSD now    
    MK> ... or nothing.  Linux was a godsend - especially Slackware - and gcc    
    MK> greatly assisted the yummy builtin godsendness.  So much for java.   
      
   Ah, well, in some places gcc really sucked, but they improved many things over   
   the years. What I don't really like these days is the habit of doing major   
   releases by the calendar, but many other projects have picked up that, too.   
   Everything develops into the direction of more or less doing rolling releases   
   for everything. I can live with that, but it makes maintenance for   
   "appliances" that are supposed to "just work" based on this software a real   
   hassle at times.   
      
      
   Regards,   
   Gerrit   
      
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