Recently, I started working with Java again. I had little choice in the matter, really, since its for an upcoming product in the mobile application development tools space, and I’m focusing on the Java Micro Edition area. I’ll have more to say on this skunkworks initiative another time. (Watch this space, and all that).
I’ve been using mostly other languages in the recent past, Ruby, a little Python, Common Lisp, a little Haskell. But mostly Ruby. And it seems that having stayed Java-free for about two years has made me really rusty. That apart, this time around Java started out feeling annoying, and morphed into being mostly amusing. In an annoying way. The question I constantly have to tell myself to refrain from asking (out loud, and to the world in general) is – “Why can’t the bloody runtime figure this out for itself? Why do I have to type this extra (vestigial) code?”
In any case, working on the new Java Micro Edition platform again is nice – reminds me of a project I did at college – and of simpler times… 
