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7. Oct 2018 23:07 by <a href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">jwhelan0112@gmail.com</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>JAVA has a number of problems. </div></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Can you give examples that would justify a massive effort of reimplementing JOSM?<br /></p><p> </p><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>Many
corporations ban its installation citing security issues which
restricts the machines that can use JOSM with all its nice tools.</div></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Because that some people will not be able to use JOSM at their work is not one <br /></p><p>that would justify that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Because people who map at their work, and have banned Java and other executables <br /></p><p>are allowed is not high.</p><p><br /></p><br /><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div><div><font face="system-ui, -apple-system, blinkmacsystemfont, segoe ui, roboto, ubuntu, helvetica neue, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb( 255 , 255 , 255 )">C#
apparently is open source. Visual Studio 2017 is a professional
development environment. Yes it is Windows and I recognise that many
prefer one flavour of UNIX or another but I think it is time to think
strategically and start work on a replacement for JOSM before we find we
can no longer use it. It can certainly create code which will run on
UNIX systems.</span></font></div><div><font face="system-ui, -apple-system, blinkmacsystemfont, segoe ui, roboto, ubuntu, helvetica neue, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb( 255 , 255 , 255 )"><br /></span></font></div><div><font face="system-ui, -apple-system, blinkmacsystemfont, segoe ui, roboto, ubuntu, helvetica neue, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb( 255 , 255 , 255 )">I'm not saying C# is the only way to go. </span></font></div></div></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>What about openjdk?<br /></p> </body>
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