Why LLVM and not Parrot? (I admit, while the JVM has gotten far as to optimization I still consider it too heavy for anything but servers and the PermGen too unreliable.)
On Jun 16, 1:12 pm, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > You're right about there not being a golden hammer language, but with LLVM I > think we're perhaps getting close to having a golden hammer platform... (for > a given definition of "platform") > > So it ain't all doom&gloom! > > On 16 June 2010 12:05, Carl Jokl <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > I wish VB would die. > > > If the job advertisements are anything to go by in the UK there still > > seem to be quite a few posts going for VB .Net developers. Perhaps you > > mean classic VB. Office still uses VBA and didn't move that to > > VB .Net. > > It VB stuck to being used for what it was designed for then i.e. a COM > > scripting language it was fine for that but things got ugly when > > people decided to try and build enterprise grade applications in VB > > which the language was never designed for. The whole situation with > > JavaScript reminds me of this too. JavaScript was just supposed to be > > a glue language for the browser and yet people are pushing it to try > > and do more complex heavy lifting which it was never designed to do. > > > There is no golden hammer programming language. The more I sample > > different languages and platforms the more clear it is that they all > > have strengths and weaknesses. I wish I could dismiss .Net as being > > really bad but some of it is quite well though out. The down side > > tends to be the political baggage that goes with the platform rather > > than the technology being really bad. I don't hate C/C++ and maybe the > > geeky side of me enjoys doing some low level stuff now and > > again but when I consider how long it would take to build an > > application of any given size and complexity in C/C++ it is a slow > > going language to develop in. Sometimes there is no choice but to go > > native to solve some problems. > > > Much as I am not as enthusiastic about Java as I once was that hasn't > > seemed to push me toward another platform. It is the community that > > makes me want to stay with Java. I underestimated how valuable/good > > the Java community is until I lost it. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "The Java Posse" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups > > .com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- > Kevin Wright > > mail/google talk: [email protected] > wave: [email protected] > skype: kev.lee.wright > twitter: @thecoda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
