TOR in Java?
Marc Abel
m-abel at columbus.rr.com
Thu Oct 6 18:35:08 UTC 2005
Hi Oliver,
I'm not a TOR developer; however, as an exit node server operator and
system administrator I prefer C and am willing to accept C++.
C#, being a closed-source proprietary product, could be very unpopular,
not just on non-Intel architectures but on non-Microsoft operating
systems. I would not run Tor if it were written in C#, period.
I view Java as Sun's property; it's an effort to get closed-source code
to work across hardware platforms. It's extremely inefficient in terms
of computing resources. There are some terrific turf wars as well, as a
result of fighting between Sun and Microsoft. Licensing is such that a
lot of OSs don't come with Java by default. In this sense, I do not
favor Java. If Tor required Java to run, I probably would discontinue
any affiliation I have with Tor.
Java does have some merit for applets on WWW pages, but that's a
separate topic.
Personally, I don't believe in buffer overflows; my feeling is this
never happens to competent programmers.
No malice intended, and I know I'm very opinionated. Thank you for
inviting comments!
Marc
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