Sunday, 9 March 2014

Re: Considration for writting program in Java language in Google summer of code 2014

On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 04:48:23PM +0530, Shabnam Hasan wrote:
> Sir,i really want to work on this projects.its not like i dont know C
> language,but its not as perfect as java.What if i work on C?

NetSurf is written in C. If you wish to contribute it, it will be in C.
Java is not suitable: it is not as small, fast, or as portable.

Also, please do not reply to me directly, reply to the list.

> On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Rob Kendrick <rjek@netsurf-browser.org>wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 04:18:15PM +0530, Shabnam Hasan wrote:
> > > Respected sir,
> > > I am a b.tech 3rd year student in computer science
> > > branch,from Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow, Uttar
> > > Pradesh, India.I want to apply for the Google summer of code 2014,under
> > > Netsurf mentoring team.As i was reading the contents under Netsurf page,i
> > > got to know that the whole program will be written in C language,i want
> > to
> > > ask,is it possible that i do the programming in java language?This is the
> > > only problem i am facing.Otherwise,i have broad knowledge of CSS,HTML,WEB
> > > BROWSER and Document Object Model.
> >
> > As I said to you personally earlier, no. NetSurf and its libraries are
> > written in C, and we won't entertain moving to another language because
> > of NetSurf's aims to be small and fast.

B.

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