taylor_venable |
03-26-2007 08:35 AM |
I think the percentage of Macs with a JRE is 100% -- it comes pre-installed with OS X, I believe. As for Windows, I'd wager probably a lot (definitely more than half, probably around three-quarters or more).
As for the viability of writing a desktop application in C++ or Java, there are a lot more computers with a JRE than there are with a C++ compiler and an operator who knows how to use it. That's one of the benefits of Java. It's all too unfortunate that Perl / Python / Ruby haven't caught on to that point of market penetration yet, but things may be heading in that direction.
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