Regarding the brand new features of Java6
It looks like the Java6 (or rather, Java SE 6 as the marketing gods will insist from now on) people have finally joined the moron parade that is the rest of the java community.
The particular idiocy that has resulted in wise men everywhere losing bowel control is the embedded javascript engine.
Why, in the name of all that is pink and fluffy in this world, does java need this? How many times have you bastards thought ‘god, I’d use java, if only it had a javascript engine that didn’t require that I download a jar’?
What’s even more incredible that this spastic idea is the reception it’s received. I’ve always been bitter about how retarded most java bloggers are, but the number of people who have happily drooled onto the ether about what a great idea this is (without ever, ever presenting a coherent or intelligible reason as to why) is flabbergasting. The idiocy of the masses is one thing, but to have so many individuals spontaneously display their genitalia all aquiver over such a pointless exercise is inexplicable, to put it mildly.
Even more astounding is the fact that the html engine in the JDK still can’t render anything more advanced than HTML 3, yet we have a bunch of filthy unemployed drama queens cooing about how great and important javascript support is.
The scripting host engine I can somewhat tolerate. After all, the scripting crowd is loud and obnoxious and easily appeased, so might as well toss them a bone (or two) to insert into the odd orifice (or two) to pacify them. No doubt, in typical JDK team manner, they’ll still work hard to mangle it up and not bother talking to anyone about how classloading actually works and demand all sorts of command line switches and sacrificing of children to the classloader pantheon.
The idiocy of course doesn’t stop there. We now have a ‘lightweight’ embedded http server. I suppose SE 7 will include tomcat eh? Maybe merge EE and SE, while we’re at it! Who needs something you can download in mere hours, when you can wait days for the joy of something you never even asked for in the first place!
