What is Java good for?

[siDDis]

Today Java is a great tool thanks to the open source community which has improved Java a lot with Hibernate, Spring, Groovy etc..

The main problem with Java is that it tries to be a tool that can do everything, and it can, though there are other programming languages which does things better.

And I don't find Java slow at all, Yake2 is a great example of that http://bytonic.de/html/benchmarks.html

Even GUI apps feels very good and responsive today. On my Windows desktop PC I use aTunes for music. It's a great application, fast and requires very little memory.

[drubin]

And I don't find Java slow at all, Yake2 is a great example of that http://bytonic.de/html/benchmarks.html

Been looking for this one for a while, lost if for a little bit.

Java is DEF on the up and up