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I think your PalmOS experience must have been from a specific time period.

The earliest PalmOS systems had gcc, don't remember there being any commercial tools, this was before Java had been released.

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Actually an appropriate gcc target didn't exist at the beginning. Initially there was only Codewarrior, which was commercial. There was not even an emulator. That came from the open-source side and was embraced by Palm.

However J2ME was not really an option. By the point Java existed, gcc prc-tools already did.

The whole j2me toolchain was pretty rough too. For a while when i started i used DOS history to get through it. then my life changed when my prof told me what a batch file was for. ( There werr four commands you had to run in sequence anytime you wanted to test your code )

Programming on j2me was like 7x better after that...

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