No Modern Java on Mac OS X Leopard - Surprised?
Apple has another spectacular operating system release in Mac OS X Leopard. Just like any release, if you make applications for Mac OS X or worse, make a developer tool, you probably found a few niggling issues in your products [Note - Valentina seems untouched by this]. I have yet to find any 3rd party tool that wasn’t impacted by this release, and even those that utilize Carbon libraries have had their grumbles. The biggest news though is that Java appears dead in its tracks under Mac OS X Leopard, and as John Gruber mentions in his blog, Java developers are very upset.
A friend of mine who develops in Java mentioned to me a few months ago how MacBooks at Java events seem to vastly outnumber the number of Dells, HPs and Thinkpads toted about by developers.
I will not praise Apple for this cut, like many Apple enthusiasts do whenever Apple makes a decision to add or subtract. The decision to ship earlier rather than later is purely a financial one - that’s where the real prioritization is, especially when you are a public company.
