[Pan-users] Re: 0.134 and Beyond

[Matej Cepl]

walt, Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:45:50 -0700:
> So -- why not implement the pan GUI in java and let each platform deal
> with the optimized c++ part in its own way (already done)?

Because it is insane ... show me one nice Java GUI program which isn't an 
insane memory hog.

Do you remember those days when people were laughing at Emacs as meaning 
"Eight megabytes of memory and constantly swapping"? Those were the 
days ... Eclipse is useless IMHO with memory under 2GB ...

Matěj