But if you go the non-JVM way, you'll loose all the advantages it offers
too: cross-platform, hotspot code tuning, memory management, ... Would you
go back the bronze-age software development - just for the sake of getting
rid of oracle software ?

If it's worth such a radical change, maybe you'd rather start a new language
with a new VM. There was such a suggestion on James Gosling's blog: Why
wouldn't he start a new language for a new VM ? It would be a great thing to
do: it's the right time, the right man and we would be able to shed all the
weight that was kept for the backwards-compatibility.

And as a sidenote I see Glassfish is Oracle's now too. Aaaaaargh.... ;-)



On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 13:54, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote:

> Not really.  We said that Ruby code can be run on the JVM, and later ported
> to the Ruby runtime (or to IronRuby) if that becomes necessary.
>
> It was also stated that, for Scala in particular, there are development
> environments and build tools available that aren't tied to the JVM.
>
> For languages that cross-compile to CLR, there are also projects such as
> ja.NET (http://www.janetdev.org/) that can provide Java core libraries on
> that platform, as well as help porting 3rd-party Java libraries.
>
> Porting 3rd-party Scala frameworks should be as simple as recompiling.
>
>
> On 1 September 2010 12:39, Miroslav Pokorny <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> But did you not just state that one can easily replace JRuby with the real
>> thing at any time as java the platform and its wealth of libraries, tools
>> etc is not an major priority in the platform decision making process ?
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