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by coldtea 1766 days ago
>happy to answer any questions anyone might have!

Any reason for the snark towards a Java port in the FAQ?

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i TA'd the intro to computer science class at Georgia Tech, taught using Java 1.1.7, back in 1999, and have used very little java since. at the time, it was not a particularly pleasant environment, though i suppose few things were.

more concretely, Autumn Lamonte's Jexer (https://jexer.sourceforge.io/) is a far better solution for Java, better than any wrapper of Notcurses could ever be due to its rich integration with the language and its expansive APIs.

beyond that, i authentically don't ever want to have to deal with bugs about a java port.

Fair enough. Modern Java is nowhere near Java 1.1 (or even Java 1.4 for that matter).