Re: Some thoughts about ImageJ ...

Posted by dscho on Mar 09, 2009; 7:55pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Some-thoughts-about-ImageJ-tp3693353p3693371.html

Hi Bob,

On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Robert Dougherty wrote:

> >So using Clojure, Jython, Javascript, JRuby or BeanShell does not
> >affect portability and ease of installation at all.
>
> One of my favorite features of ImageJ is that it provides it own simple
> development environment: Compile And Run....

Yes, but that means that you have to take care of declaring the types,
casting and converting the class instances properly, and you have to catch
exceptions.

If the real job is to test a new idea, I tend to script the thing in
Jython, and most of the time there is a fundamental problem with the idea.

I can then spend more time to try to fix the idea, or just forget about
that approach.

In both cases, I saved time.

> I don't like spending time setting up environments and learning
> languages.

You definitely do not need to!  But I like the freedom for people who
already know certain languages.

> I could be wrong, but it seems to me that ImageJ is a good as Java APIs
> get.  It is certainly more solid than Java Sound or, sigh, Quicktime for
> Java.

I certainly is!

> the real way forward?  Ask Wayne?

As far as ImageJ is concerned: Wayne decides.  That is just a fact.

> We are are all standing on his shoulders.

Oh, definitely.  I sometimes look back to the olden days of fighting
Amira's awkward-or-not-existing documentation and the long development
cycles, and I am so thankful that I do not have to suffer that anymore.

Wayne, if I haven't thanked you today yet: Thank you!

Ciao,
Dscho