On 18 September 2013 22:33, Chris <wend...@tcd.ie> wrote: > Seeing that more and more developers and companies look for or actively > develop native languages, I wonder will Java go native one day? (Cf. > http://docs.oracle.com/cd/A97336_01/buslog.102/a83727/jtools5.htm) > > Is this Java's only chance to keep up with Go and Rust (and D)? Performance > is an issue, no matter how fast your processor is, Java always lags behind*. > And the JVM installation horror is bad enough for developers, but for users? > Now Java apps are often shipped with a version of the JRE included, which > smells of defeat. If Oracle want to save Java (after so many "unfortunate" > decisions), will they finally go native? I can see a market for that. There > are still a lot of Java developers out there, there are loads of Java apps, > Java has GUI libraries etc. > > *Java's sluggish performance was what made me look for alternatives in the > first place, and I found D.
Java itelf is a very basic language to allow this to be possible. But the library implementation denies this, and I don't see native support beyond JNI. -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
