robin48gx wrote:
Java was designed by a unix company, and ran on Linux and SUNOS before it ran on windoze. Your example of Java makes no sense. I programmed my MSc project in Java years ago, and the `jar' file ran on Linux SUNOS and Windoze desktops without modification.
I find your conjecture about Java being unsupported on Linux rather puzzling. The whole point of Java is that it is multi-platform. I have no problems running Java on Linux.
To be quite blunt with you, the trouble you have with my conjecture is that you have problems actually reading my post. Look what I wrote:
"but is still a second rate citizen in the desktop linux eco-system, java language bindings for quite important stuff such as clutter, gst etc etc is terribly far behind the other language bindings"
So, what im saying, is the important desktop open source linux projects, take Clutter as an example, do not embrace Java very much. Its is possible to find some half arsed bindings, which is several versions behinds the other language bindings. Look at this wiki page for example, check the bindings section http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutter_(toolkit)
Another example, java-gnome (which is the GTK/gnome binding for java), is not even in my preferred distros official package repository. Nobody cares, "just use python".
Your "I wrote something in java which runs on multiple platforms" answer is completely off target. Great, so have I, in uni it was more c++ for me, but during my 15+ years of being a developer by trade, I have most certainly used my fair amout of java. Again, if you had read my post, you could see I pointed out linux it was a good platform for developing JEE (..the J here stands for java you know 
). But again, this has nothing todo with what I wrote about java as a language not being embraced by the opensource community.
Please try and read why I actually am writing. You seem to be skimming. Same with the games comment, Counter Strike is from 2000, its hardly a "recent AAA title" , TF2 isn't recent either.
All the best 