On Jul 28, 2:43 pm, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > 1) See that what I don't follow. Who cares what runtime is underneath? > Very very few people should care about this, what they should care > more about is having flexibility and choice i.e. it's nice to see > Dalvik come in to save the day for mobile "Java". > > 2) You're missing the greater point, Fantom not only targets the CLR > and the JVM. Charles Nutter's Mirah language shares a similar design > goal btw. but goes even further. > > 3) Not sure what's so great about Java's type system, I suspect it's > just because of comfort. :) > > /Casper
Does not anyone see the irony? Fantom and Mirah are attempting to provide a neutral platform across OS, etc. The JVM type system and class library have already solved that problem to a very great extent. That was Sun's design goal, after all. I can get to Windows with JVM - so I don't even need to bother with CLR as a vehicle to run so-called platform neutral software. -- 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.
