On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 23:53:35 UTC, Iain Buclaw
wrote:
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.
Why, given the fact that I can buy native compilers?
--
Paulo
