Uncategorized jlee on 25 Apr 2006
Why GCJ is bad (for newbies) and why Sun is to blame
I spend a fair bit of time helping out beginning Java programmers. My favorite is when they ask why their swing code doesn’t work. When they post their stacktrace, there’s all the GCJ/GIJ classes. I explain to them how GCJ isn’t java and doesn’t (fully) support swing and that they should just [...]