On Friday, 5 September 2014 at 14:18:46 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
You can write DLLs in Java, for example with
http://www.excelsiorjet.com/.
The fact that the Java reference implementation is a VM,
doesn't tie the language to a VM.
Why pick Java if not for JVM? It is mediocre language at most,
very limited and poor feature-wise, lacking expressive power even
compared to C++ (you can at least abuse templates in the latter).
JVM, however, may be the best VM environment implementation out
there and that can be useful.
