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Oracle crushed in defeat as Java world votes 'No' to modular overhaul

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Re: Sun was always a little arrogant about Java

"What are you using Java for where that one bit is crucial?"

Strictly speaking not crucial, but it's harder and uglier than it needs to be to do a basic thing such as parsing binary input. For some folks latency is killer, pissing a few kiloCPU cycles up the wall to parse a few bytes of XML or JSON just doesn't cut it.

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