Carmack on J2ME (MIDP) development

John Carmack, of id Software fame has been muddling with J2ME; here are his initial thoughts.  

Two quotes from his post:

• “Write-once-run-anywhere. Ha. Hahahahaha.”  (Amen.)
  
• “. . . there is something deeply wrong when text editing on a 3.6 ghz processor is anything but instantaneous.”   (oh yeah. . .)

Kind of curious, me thinks, that I ran across this as I was getting my Java <gasp!> environment setup again.  I re-imaged my laptop last month, but didn’t get my Java development environment back in place until this week.  Just what, exactly, am I doing with a Java dev setup on my box? Well, I believe in the whole “…keep your enemies closer..” thing, not to mention that I [feel that I] cannot have an effective .NET CF vs J2ME discussion without some time in the trenches on the other side.  I’m no J2ME expert (yet), but I definitely think that Microsoft took the ‘better’ approach to mobile device development.

-Nino